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Title: More Fun, Less Stuff
By: Michael (Mike) Nickerson, Independent Researcher on Sustainability, Author, and Active Member in the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
Abstract:
With the human family pressing against planetary limits, perpetual growth is no longer a viable option. The Business-as-Usual model of society is challenging our relationships with the Earth’s natural systems and requires a different approach to mutual provision (i.e., the economy).through a change of perspective.
Children grow; adults, not so much. The human family has reached physical maturity and, as with individual maturity, accepting responsibility for our strength is accompanied by the vast opportunities of adult life. By focusing on what we can do with life, we can have more fulfillment with less impact on the environment.
Time tested biological processes can secure long-term well-being as society’s economic “metabolism” adapts to our new reality. A shared vision of this reality can lead to a sustainable future by reducing consumption and establishing a more equitable distribution of material and intellectual wealth.
This presentation will be presented via Zoom in two segments with a preliminary discussion after the first session and a full discussion with Q&A following the 2nd half.
Bio:
Mike Nickerson is author of “Life, Money & Illusion”, a book that explains how our changed relationships with the Earth requires a different approach to our long-term survival. After a lifetime studying the ways in which societies change, along with the problems that are expanding as we press against our planet’s limits, the insights I’ve gathered on how we might avoid overshoot and collapse are finally being seen as helpful. See for example: http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/what_people_are_saying_tour.html and http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/what_people_are_saying.html.
My objective is to help our communities recognize that as a species, we are grown up now, that while continued expansion can be disastrous, there is a long and satisfying future awaiting us when we acknowledge that our planet is finite and accept responsibility for the impacts we are having on each other and on the Earth.
http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/transforming.htm
You can find more on Mike here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-nickerson-17ab212a/?originalSubdomain=ca
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