Does Our Modern Techno-Industrial Society Destroy the Biophysical Basis Of Our Existence?
with Dr. William Rees July 23, 2024, at 4 PM Central time 5 PM Eastern time This IRAS webinar is FREE but registration is required. Please register using the link below. If you have questions, contact CJ Love: [email protected] |
About the July 23, 2024 webinar:
Does Our Modern Techno-Industrial Society Destroy the Biophysical Basis Of Our Existence? Presentation Overview: For 69 years, The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS) has held summer Conferences on Star Island, off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, we inaugurated a monthly series of webinars — July 23 will be our 50th session. This is a perfect way to engage with IRAS themes and the IRAS community! With Star Island’s generous technical support, we meet via Zoom for live presentations. This session in July will be a two-part program, titled Will Modern Civilization be the Death of Us? Reflections on the Earth's Future, will be a reprise of our original presentations (watch the recording for June 29 and June 30), updated with new data and insights for 2024. The initial program was first presented in Seattle at the Annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). About the July 23 presenter: William Rees is a population ecologist, ecological economist, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. His research focuses on the biophysical requirements for sustainability and on the implications of global ecological trends for global civilization. Prof Rees is perhaps best known as the originator and co-developer (with his graduate students) of ‘ecological footprint analysis’ (EFA), a quantitative tool that shows the extent to which humanity is in ‘ecological overshoot’. Overshoot poses a serious challenge to policies promoting the continuous growth of the human enterprise--we would need almost five Earth-like planets to support just the present world population sustainably. |
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Beyond TechoCivilization: Envisioning Tomorrow's Earth
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