Big Ideas & Big Issues

Speakers cover a variety of big ideas and big issues as they relate to environment and sustainability, including systems thinking, paradigm change, worldviews and political philosophy, human nature, evolutionary psychology, the long-term future and the prospects for civilization, war, peace and national security, global population growth, and genetic engineering.

Whole Systems & Systems Thinking. Understanding sustainability - the need for it and the path to it - is strongly related to seeing the world in whole systems terms. See Daniel Dancer, Bob Doppelt, Gil Friend, Medard Gabel, William G. Reed, Dan Chiras, and Gwen Hallsmith.

Population. The United States has recently passed the 300 million population mark and is headed we're told toward 400 million by mid-century. This will make many of our environmental and social challenges more difficult to meet. At the same time, many of the world's poorest countries continue to grow the fastest, making their task of escaping poverty next to impossible. See Lester Brown, Paul Ehrlich, Rob Caughlan, Pete McCloskey, and Jim Motavalli.

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War, Sustainability & National Security
Worldviews & Paradigm Change
Prospects for Our Civilization
Human Nature & Sustainability
The Future
Evolutionary Psychology
Political Ideology & Sustainability
Environmental Policy: Concepts & Analysis
Genetic Engineering