Envisioning a Sustainable Future

Google Tech Talk June 11, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Madeleine Lansky. How do we deal with environmental degradation, climate change and global warming? Any system that is not sustainable will ultimately fail. This truth feels unbearable, and we often block it from our consciousness. We are overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, sadness and anger. We are paralyzed about how to go about improving our environment. Many of our mental health symptoms are linked to our core fears about survival and destruction. We might experience them as emptiness, feeling separate from life, or that life is not worth living. It can feel challenging enough just to survive, let alone to do something about the environment. We have lost our direct connection with our natural surroundings. In nature, the earth's finite resources are continuously recycled into different forms: molecules, minerals, water, air, soil, plants, and animals. "Sustainability" is inherent to the natural world. From the individual level to global, our main job right now is to rework all of our systems so that they recycle, rather than waste, finite resources. By embracing sustainability both personally and environmentally, we can feel emotionally stronger, happier and healthier. Sustainability allows us to reconnect with our natural surroundings while holding on to humanity's many achievements in the past 150 years. Our task is to use the genius of the industrial revolution to create the next step in our evolution: The ...

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  • w00tehpwn June 24, 2010

    @tulio84z The documentary you're referring to is full of inaccuracies, misrepresentations and outright lies. Check out the docu's Wikipedia page, or the google for "ofcom complaint". There's even some great videos here on youtube by ABC interviewing Durki

  • tulio84z June 24, 2010

    Aw come on. More bullshit about climate change? How long will we have to listen to this lie? For all you who still think that CO2 causes global warming watch the documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle". In the Film scientists explain how in reality

  • ytgetter8758 June 24, 2010

    She is so naive. Get the IMF and World Bank out of Haiti and the people will care take care of it. Madeleine, stop giving kids coke, oops, I mean Ritalin, and change their diet and the kids will be just fine. Also, unless you know how to stop the sun d