Will Global Challenges and Transformative Changes Require Deeper Shifts in Cultures and Values?:...
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Will addressing global challenges and promoting transformative changes require deeper shifts in cultures and values? Adj Prof. Johan Kuylenstierna Executive Director Stockholm Environment Institute
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Will addressing global challenges and promoting transformative changes require deeper shifts in
cultures and values?
Adj Prof. Johan KuylenstiernaExecutive Director
Stockholm Environment Institute
And the lemon prize goes to…
Technological fixesBehavioural changes
Population and resources
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man".”
Chasing resources: Land
Grabbing?
David Bainbridge Cartoon
1960s - awakening
1962: Impact of pesticides on ecosystemsand on the health of living creatures
A changing world - development in the Anthropocene…
Mega cities 1950
Källa: U.N. Population Division
Mega cities 2015
Source:U.N. Population Division
7,238,001,0705 June, 09:53:37
1970s – moving to action
Limits to Growth, 1972Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974
”Oil Crisis 1973”
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
The World Summit on Sustainable Development
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
• Rio Principles
• Agenda 21
• Global Conventions
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
• The Future We Want
• Sustainable Development Goals
• From ”the costs of inaction” to the ”benefits of action”
New concepts – new thinking?
The trouble with our
time is that the
future
is not what it used to
bePaul Valery THANK YOU
Johan [email protected]
