COP21

The Future Now Show

A contribution for COP21 Paris – UN Climate Change Conference

featuring
Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolution biologist, Futurist, Hawaii, USA
Lise Voldeng, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Ultra-Agent Industries Inc., USA / Canada

Climate change is arguably the biggest problem of our age – the changes it brings will be immense and potentially catastrophic. This show asks how we might adapt. It looks at the obstacles, from corporate greed to complicit media and the ignorance and apathy they engender and it looks at the structure of our globalised world and where change should occur, from the problem with the nation state to the need for local solutions. Woven in to this is an observation brought in from evolutionary biology that the history of our planet shows repeated cycles of intense, and innovative, competition, then, when this starts to cost too much, cooperation. Is our current globalised, capitalist world the peak of a competitive phase and is global cooperation, on all levels, an essential next evolutionary step?

The Future Now Show
Credits

Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolution biologist, Futurist, Hawaii, USA
Lise Voldeng, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Ultra-Agent Industries Inc., USA / Canada

Intro voice
Jack Gallagher, contemporary dance:performer/choreographer, Bodies Anonymous
and
Paul Holister, Editor, Summary Text