Keynote - Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse

Gaya Herrington - Vice President Sustainability Research at Schneider Electric and Co-Author of Earth for All and Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse.

Rebalance Earth - Natural Capital Conference 2023

[FlameofDemocracy]

Commensalism. i.e. complementary relationships, would be a hidden feature of dynamic or organic systems. So, it is likely models such as the Rome one could be quite wrong.

[pablopenarodrigues]

Excellent talk!! Yes, "we need to change our relationship with nature" but this change will continue to lead us into the bio-evolutionary Anthropocene with unexpected results.
Pena Rodrigues, P.J.F., Lira, C.F. The Bio-Evolutionary Anthropocene Hypothesis: Rethinking the Role of Human-Induced Novel Organisms in Evolution. Biol Theory 14, 141–150 (2019)

[adarshprabhu]

The good stuff only started at 16:00. I tend to agree, growth is more relevant in economies where there has traditionally been very low HDI.

[anthonymorris]

Every issue you cited in the first 50 seconds have all continuously and consistently improved.

[summondadrummin]

The most basic system that needs to change is the monetary system. Debt based, interest based currency drives continuous growth all based on the illusion's of money.

[summondadrummin]

The industrial era is not very old, its expected we'd be bumblers and we are. Our technologies are often very energy inefficient as is our whole economy. There's improvements happening but as we know humans are creatures of habit and one of our habits is domination. The entrenched interests for example the WEF want to create a transhuman future, where of course they will reign supreme. This whole pattern of domination is stupidly inefficient, requires bullying, massive militaries, censorship and continuous propaganda. Whereas a future where humanity can Wake from its ancient evolutionary slumber and find ways to resolve conflicts using our words, like we teach our children, learn to share, like we teach our children and design our economies like wisely designed games, we love games. This scenario requires a consciousness upgrade. The idea that we are separate from anything is to ignore the obvious.

[jibberism]

Dutchy?

If so, hardly noticeable though :P

As for change.... Sure. But do we trust the harbingers of change? I can be honest when I state I have seen nothing worthy of our trust for well over 20 years.

[kdub]

All graphs go up up up, until she decides they won't any more.

[pcertednongmorinsedGOATcorn]

Title should say “how to say nothing useful in 20 minutes”

[johnbatson]

She doesn’t address the real and malevolent issues and those are all related to getting back to balancing the budget. As the US is sitting on 33 trillion of crushing debt with no plan to reduce it

[silvestertheblack]

the real problem is inflation and the pension system.