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Climate Change: Why and How to Cause the Change Required

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Amy McMorrow Hunter shows how we can reverse course and prevent the dystopian future we are heading towards, so we don't have a world like Wade's in 2045, as depicted in Ready Player One.

Climate change and other human-caused disruptions to our natural environment have resulted in measurable declines in the ability of nature to support life, including human life. Transformative change of human behavior is urgently needed to reverse the decline of life on Earth.

Despite humans’ dislike of change, our denial of unpleasant facts, and tendancy to procrastinate, an unprecedented level of cooperation—fast, deep and wide—will be required to turn things around. If we stay on our current path, future generations will be left with big, untenable messes and unstable societies.

Fortunately, we have the technology we need to make the change, and it’s totally possible. This program discusses how we got here, why it’s important to act now, how we can come together as a society to make the necessary changes, and how we can work to generate consensus on complicated issues.

Amy McMorrow Hunter is Founder and President/CEO of The Climate Economy, a nonprofit for education and experimentation on business models and lifestyles that are good for the climate, economy and humanity.

Illinois Humanities is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom and the Illinois General Assembly [through the Illinois Arts Council Agency], as well as by contributions
from individuals, foundations, and corporations.

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