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It's pay back time

A culture that respects, restores and guards Earth's life-systems is an evolutionary necessity. 

 
The pervasive influence of society and its economy on Life’s functional integrity requires a fundamental reorientation and acceptance of responsibility to maintain local and global biocapacity, which thus far has been subject to exploitation for corporate and personal gain the world over. The banking and economic crisis represents the house of cards of a fundamentally unsustainable system of exponential growth, built on the exploitation of natural resources and concomitant degradation of Earth’s biological capacity to sustain life.
 
Society has reached the tipping point, where worldwide resource and energy scarcity is set to significantly shrink world trade and resource availability, resulting in increased pressure on local resources and dependence on regional biocapacity. Thus far economic and societal activities perpetrate the degradation of biocapacity at local and global scales by way of the systematic exploitation of natural resources (both renewable and non-renewable):
  • The felling of accessible native timber trees to the late 1980s,
    • Extracting the best, leaving the rest (high grading).
  • Fossil fuelled monocultures and

Resulting decline of soils’ storage and cycling bio-capacity for nutrients and water.

Pay-back time! We are all in arrears to compensate future generations for the greedy consumption of Earth’s natural resources and for squandering its energy!  
Surprisingly, despite easily accessed information, there is still little consideration for life’s future and blatant disregard for our descendants’ plight for survival within resource-depleted environments.

This issue outweighs by far the looming loss of self determination from crippling debt, driven by a redundant economic system that is inherently unable and incompetent to maintain life on Earth. 

In the near future towns’ material and energy requirements will primarily be sourced locally. Material and energy supply continuity will largely depend on the capacity of regions for sustained production inside functionally intact ecosystem processes.

Charitable Reciprocate Biocapacity Ltd was set up in May 2008 to advance a culture of ecosystem guardianship and sustain biological capacity. 
 
Financial support and land is sought at all times to significantly up-scale ecological reforestation, the re-establishment of natural resources, effective carbon sequestration and the restoration of indigenous biodiversity for a future of life and culture on Earth.

Iwi, rural communities, towns and their organisational structures (Local Councils, NGOs) are well placed to scope long-term environmental sustainability issues and respond by restoring resilience of local biocapacity and thereby its community.
 

A region’s biocapacity results from the organisational capacity of its (biotic or human) community to establish resilience from the efficient use and cycling of a locality’s available energy, nutrients and water in plants and soils.

Charitable Reciprocate Biocapacity can be regarded as your time PORTAL; your link to a future for life and your families’ descendants. 
 
Reciprocate Biocapacity is our ultimate option to forge a sustainable culture by reconciling blunders of our (in-) voluntary participation in an unsustainable global economy and society.
 
This Portal challenges you and every other person to be measured by your choice of one or the other option:

Option I:
Reciprocate Biocapacity to retain life and culture.
 
Donate / bequest land / funds to Reciprocate Biocapacity, mitigate your effects of consumption and begin to restore Earth’s natural resources.
  1. Descendants will acknowledge your eleventh-hour awareness in supporting wholistic actions that provide for their material and emotional needs and may thus pardon participation in a consumer lifestyle fuelled by unthinking ignorance and impulsive greed.


    Option II:
    Do Nothing, ignorance, green-wash, self-serving half-measures, Demise.
     
    Ignore this portal for a future and
    • Be assured of descendants’ eternal repulsion when referring to the legacy of a lethargic and greedy ancestor, too ignorant and stupid to grasp the most basic concepts of housekeeping (ecosystem guardianship) and sustainability.  

     
    Recommendations:
    We recommend you:
    1.     Note that The concept is sound and ready for take-off, here and beyond.
     
    2.     Commit yourself to achieve Option ONE and help establish a future for life and your families’ descendants.
     
    • Donate, sponsor, transfer assets, fund biocapacity projects, amend your will and bequest to alleviate issues and achieve wholistic objectives of charitable RECIPROCATE BIOCAPACITY Ltd.
     

    Donate, offer and bequest land to Reciprocate Biocapacity to help restore Earth’s natural resources and mitigate excessive resource consumption resulting from your participation in 20th and 21st century civilisation. (email proposal to biocapacity(at)gmail.com).

 

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Janssen H, 2006 (1). Bush Vitality Assessment. Growing Common Futures. www.bushvitality.org.nz

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Tate, K.R., Giltrap, D.J., Claydon, J.J., Newsome, P.F., Atkinson, A.E., Taylor, M.D. and Lee, R. (1997) Organic Carbon Stocks in New Zealand’s Terrestrial Ecosystems. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

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Valentini, R., A. J. Dolman, P. Ciais, E.-D. Schulze, A. Freibauer, D. Schimel, and M. Heimann. 2000. Hörhold, Jena, CarboEurope European Office, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, October 2000. Accounting for carbon sinks in the biosphere, European perspective.

Valentini, 2002. Results of Carbo-Europe. Europe-wide Programme that has Pioneered Research in to the Carbon Budget.

Valentini, 2002. Tree farms won’t halt climate change. New Scientist, October 2002.

Wackernagel, M., Monfreda, C., Moran, D., Wermer, P., Goldfinger, S., Deumling, D., Murray, M., 2005. “National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts 2005: The underlying calculation method”. Global Footprint Network, Oakland, California, USA

WWF, 2001. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the world: A New Map of Life on Earth. Vol.51 No.11 BioScience 933.

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