Habitat

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20/10/2020 30/11/2020

European Economic and Social Committee - 99 rue Belliard

1040 Brussels

Belgium

The EESC will host a photography exhibition entitled Habitat, featuring the work of Tom Hegen, an award-winning German photographer and designer from Munich. Tom Hegen's work focuses on aerial photography projects, showcasing the impact of human presence on earth and frequently highlighting the relationship between man and nature.
The exhibition will be displayed at the EESC from 20 October to 30 November 2020, in connection with the German Presidency of the Council of the EU.

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Habitat 01.jpg

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19/10/2020

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With the advent of agriculture, the human race demonstrably and significantly changed the Earth. For thousands of years, hunters and gatherers wandered the Earth in search of food. At this time, there were only around 5 million people on the planet.

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Forest clearance and the conversion of grassland into arable land represent the biggest spatial transformation in human history. Nowadays, around 40% of our planet's land surface is used for agriculture.

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With the population growing, agricultural and livestock-farming products had to feed more and more people. The development of two-field and three-field crop rotation in the early Middle Ages enabled each cultivated area to provide food for...

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In 1900, a farmer could feed around four people with the produce of their farm. By 1950, this had already increased to ten people. Now, a farmer in Germany can feed 131 people.

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With the advent of agriculture, we became settled and towns and villages emerged. Farmers produced food to feed consumers, who in turn built towns and cities.

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The discovery and use of various raw materials is an important part of the development of our civilisation. By the middle of the 18th century, the world's population had risen to around 791 million people, more and more of whom lived in towns and cities.

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To meet the need for raw materials, we developed various methods and technical procedures for extracting them. We dig, mine, blast, pump and clear in order to obtain them.

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The steam engine enabled energy sources stored in the ground to be converted into kinetic energy.

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As a result of mechanisation, our civilisation developed rapidly. Better hygiene and clean drinking water reduced the risk of epidemics and infectious diseases as well as child mortality. Agricultural yields increased, enabling food to be better...

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Energy generation has enabled us to make major economic and social progress. But at the same time, it is our biggest ecological problem as by burning fossil fuels we are contributing significantly to global warming.

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Even today in Germany, we still generate most of our electricity by burning non-renewable raw materials: lignite and hard coal continue to be two of the main energy sources for power generation.

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Increasing energy consumption and the supply of energy to all are among the biggest challenges facing modern society. In view of climate change and the scarcity of non-renewable raw materials, energy must increasingly be generated from renewable energy...

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While the first stage of the Industrial Revolution paved the way for an industrial society, the use of electricity as the main form of energy, assembly-line work and the invention of the internal combustion engine were the biggest innovations of the...

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At the start of the 20th century, the car became a symbol of progress Ð and a mass-produced product. Roads were built and the first steps were taken towards mobilisation. The processing of goods and food was automated and they were transported from...

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The four-billionth, five-billionth and six-billionth children were born in 1975, 1987 and 1999 respectively. There are now around 7.6 billion people on Earth.

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Megacities like Shanghai, Mumbai and Istanbul are constantly expanding and other such cities are emerging. Since 2008, more people worldwide have been living in cities than in rural areas.

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However, urbanisation and the construction of new transport routes are leading to rapid excessive land consumption.

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In Germany, we claim around 66 hectares a day (or 8 square metres a second) for residential and transport purposes. About half of newly used land is sealed.

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Providing housing to an increasing number of people is one of the biggest challenges of our time.

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At the same time, the negative effects of increasing land and resource use need to be minimised.

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We are driving back nature in order to build cities, factories and roads and create arable land. Humankind's environmental footprint now covers over 75% of the Earth's surface.

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On average, our actions cause an estimated 80 plant and animal species to disappear from our planet every day.

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The impact of the loss of biodiversity is hard to estimate. One thing is certain, however: three quarters of our food is pollinated by insects.

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If more and more insects die out, this will have a serious impact on the security of our food supply. We need to act appropriately and resolutely to preserve our habitat for future generations. In Germany, we have 8676 nature reserves and 16 national...

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