Fifty Years of Eco-Failure: Stockholm+50 Debrief + Green Jobs Report
21st June (22nd June in APAC)
Americas: 2pm PDT | 3pm MDT | 4pm CDT | 5pm EDT | Brazil 6pm Africa: 10pm West | 11pm South | 12am East
Europe: 10pm UK | 11pm West | 12pm East APAC: 5am China | 6am Japan | 7am AEST | 10am NZST
Europe: 10pm UK | 11pm West | 12pm East APAC: 5am China | 6am Japan | 7am AEST | 10am NZST
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Overview
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Live show
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Fifty years ago, a team of MIT scientists identified that human decision-making was luring our entire population slowly but inexorably toward environmental disaster. Through the first ever computer model of the world, they showed that the relentless pursuit of growth and total disregard for the physical capacity of our planet would lead – in the early part of the 21st century – to declining quality of life and accelerating disruption of our one and only ecosystem.
As with an irresponsible driver who ignores the signs warning of black ice and crashes to a grizzly death off the side of a mountain, it’s not much good saying “I told you so”. Yet, five decades later, here we are. Fish harvests from the oceans flatlined around 1996, almost exactly as predicted by those scientists in their book Limits to Growth. Global warming has accelerated, fueling larger and more expensive environmental disasters year by year. Standards of living are indeed now falling, social tension is rising significantly, and harbingers of societal breakdown are appearing on every continent bar Antarctica.
With this as context, we'll explore questions such as:
We'll also be joined by our regular Green Jobs team:
We'll also be joined by your regular co-hosts Paul Herman (HIP Investor) and Nigel Lake (Pottinger).
As always, this episode will be live and interactive, with a particular focus on practical actions that businesses, governments and individuals can take -- and the economic and ecological benefits of doing so.
As with an irresponsible driver who ignores the signs warning of black ice and crashes to a grizzly death off the side of a mountain, it’s not much good saying “I told you so”. Yet, five decades later, here we are. Fish harvests from the oceans flatlined around 1996, almost exactly as predicted by those scientists in their book Limits to Growth. Global warming has accelerated, fueling larger and more expensive environmental disasters year by year. Standards of living are indeed now falling, social tension is rising significantly, and harbingers of societal breakdown are appearing on every continent bar Antarctica.
With this as context, we'll explore questions such as:
- What progress can we expect from COP and UNEP in 2022?
- What steps can we take to increase climate action in the public and private sectors?
- How can we best support investment in the Global South?
We'll also be joined by our regular Green Jobs team:
- Dr. Fadhel Kaboub, Associate Professor of Economics at Denison University, and President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
- Amir Khaleghi, PhD candidate in Economics, University of Missouri at Kansas City
We'll also be joined by your regular co-hosts Paul Herman (HIP Investor) and Nigel Lake (Pottinger).
As always, this episode will be live and interactive, with a particular focus on practical actions that businesses, governments and individuals can take -- and the economic and ecological benefits of doing so.
