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Sustainable development, an emergency |
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The "It’s our Earth!" exhibition is based on the concept of sustainable development, as defined in the Brundtland report, in other words: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ".
It’s become a real emergency: recent decades have been marked by an incredible acceleration in mankind’s use of the Earth’s resources. 
Some figures which illustrate this fundamental evolution:
• It took more than a century, from 1800 to 1927, for the planet’s population to go from 1 to 2 billion people; it took just 40 years, from 1960 to 1999, for it to go from 3 to 6 billion (6.7 billion human beings in 2007).
• The world’s energy consumption has risen from 500 million toe (tonne of oil equivalent) a year in 1900 to 9 billion toe in 2000, a 14-fold increase.
• Water: around 600,000 metres cubed a year in 1900. 4,000,000 today.
This isn’t a question of placing blame, but now we really must understand the situation and its consequences, to think about solutions, and implement them so that the world’s population can develop in a way that is harmonious and fair.
This is the aim of this exhibition, which was designed and created by Tempora for the not-for-profit organisation, Demeter. Here’s the concept .
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