Queensland Climate Movement

This workshop was conducted by Graeme Taylor, based on his book “Evolution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World” (New Society Publishers, 2008).

Some of the ideas presented in Graeme’s model for creating a sustainable future are captured below:

The Next Ten Years

The most critical time in human history. Rapidly rising oil and food prices are signs that our unsustainable global system is running out of cheap resources. The next decade will not only be a time of growing crisis, but also a time of growing opportunities.

The Global Emergency

Preventing runaway climate change. Why we have less than five years to stop global warming and prevent disaster, and why rapid constructive change is possible.

The Future is Our Choice

We will either create an ethical civilisation or suffer the catastrophic collapse of the environment and human societies. Why our immoral and destructive global system is unsustainable, and why a sustainable civilisation cannot be built without love, caring, peace and justice.

Paradigm Shift

The design of a sustainable economy and culture. The challenge is to quickly transform our environmentally, economically and socially unsustainable consumer society into a sustainable conserver society. Future economic growth is only possible if we use systems thinking, renewable energies, nanotechnologies, biomimicry, lean design and closed-loop manufacturing processes to efficiently produce products without waste or pollution.

On the Edge of Evolution

Why transformative societal change is inevitable. A new, sustainable level of civilisation (a new historical age) with holistic views, values, technologies and social structures has already begun to emerge. We can and must support this evolutionary process: the survival of our species is at stake.

If you would like to see Graeme’s presentation, please contact graeme[@]bestfutures.org