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Julian Bond - 2016-12-28 07:52:26+0000 - Updated: 2016-12-28 07:52:57+0000

Can we save the world?
http://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/can-we-save-world/

Well can we? And yes, I approve of having a major global conference on exactly that question.

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http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2016/12/can-we-save-the-world.html

“Can we save the world?” should be an important enough question to justify submitting it to our best thinking and a thorough review of everything we know that has bearing upon it. Perhaps it is one that we have shied away from, for fear that a negative answer would breed despair and passivity and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yet it is hard to see that compiling everything we know in an accessible manner could be a bad thing, and realistically assessing the mechanisms that hamstring us when we want to save the world may help us find ways to get around them.

I suggest we organize a seminar series with experts that have worked on mechanisms that hamper our efforts, and people with experiences with existing efforts, to ask the question: “Can We Save the World?”

Can We Save The World? | MAHB

Jorg Lovoll - 2016-12-28 08:54:15+0000

We have passed several tipping points. We cannot save the world of the past, but we are trying to protect the world from becoming uninhabitable for humans.

I think the climate conferences in Paris is already into the work of saving this planet

Julian Bond - 2016-12-28 09:10:52+0000

"Can we save the world?" is one of those snappy TED talk titles to get attention. But perhaps what we really mean is:- Can we model the future and come up with socially acceptable scenarios that allow a long term, sustainable, technological based civilisation to emerge. And then execute on those plans and make it happen?

So what's the smallest global population that can support a chip foundry?

Paris and the annual COP talks are focussed on climate. The Club of Rome was more widely based. Anyone else seriously thinking like this on a global scale?

Vincenzo Re - 2016-12-29 15:52:16+0000

The planet does not need saving as it is capable of taking care of itself (it can take all the time it needs to start again and heal itself but the human race only has a limited time to save itself). The real question is whether we can save the human race, and the rest of life on earth.

The usual debate is about short term profits vs. long term climate sustainability. If the multi-national corporations do not accept, or care, that the current situation is not sustainable for the climate then all is lost. Until priorities are established for maintaining a sustainable climate for the long term and agreed world-wide (by governments and corporate) then further conferences will not achieve a secure future for current life on earth.