(6th panel) Teach-In on why Technology will not save the world. 45 Scholars, Authors & Activists over two days provide an analysis on why immediate change is required in our thinking, behavior, values and economies.
With The Planet Depleted, overbuilt and poisoned, wild nature and its great gifts are disappearing. The economic challenge for a growth economy is to save itself by build entirely new resources bases to replace the old ones: New genetic foods, new genetic people and beings, new chemical skies to replace old ones (the victims of climate change), new molecular systems, new weaponry on earth and soon, in space, et. al.. For corporations, innovation solves the problem: Ignore the mess, create saleable "green" false solutions, and build and market "substitute nature" for uninterrupted product development and growth. (Event program)
This epic teach-in seeks to frame the issues and offer ecologically sane alternatives that could result in a way out of the termination of Nature and society.
International Forum On Globalization - www.ifg.org The International Center For Technology Assessment - www.icta.org NY Open Center - http://www.opencenter.org/ The Schumacher Center For New Economics - www.centerforneweconomics.org
(21 Co-Sponsors - see Ifg.org/techno-utopia/ for complete list)
6th panel 6:45 - 7:45pm
Ralph Nader, Ctr. for Responsive Law, Author, Unstoppable Bill McKibben, 350.org, Author, The End of Nature