Ralph Nader and Bill McKibben on "Why Technology Will Not Save the World"

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Wed, 01/07/2015 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Ralph Nader and Bill McKibben on "Why Technology Will Not Save the World"

From the recent Teach-In on "Why Technology Will Not Save the World," we hear Ralph Nader of the Center for Responsive Law and author of many books including, most recently, Unstoppable, and Bill McKibben of 350.org. and author of The End of Nature and numerous other books.

With The Planet Depleted, overbuilt and poisoned, wild nature and its great gifts are disappearing. The economic challenge for a growth economy is to save itself by build entirely new resources bases to replace the old ones: New genetic foods, new genetic people and beings, new chemical skies to replace old ones (the victims of climate change), new molecular systems, new weaponry on earth and soon, in space, et. al.. For corporations, innovation solves the problem: Ignore the mess, create saleable "green" false solutions, and build and market "substitute nature" for uninterrupted product development and growth. (Event program)

This epic teach-in seeks to frame the issues and offer ecologically sane alternatives that could result in a way out of the termination of Nature and society. 

International Forum On Globalization - www.ifg.org
The International Center For Technology Assessment - www.icta.org
NY Open Center - http://www.opencenter.org/
The Schumacher Center For New Economics - www.centerforneweconomics.org

21 Co-Sponsors - see Ifg.org/techno-utopia/ 

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