Will Steffen - 2020 Shaping Ideas

See more videos at http://www.ericsson.com/2020shapingid.... We have come to a critical point in history. The next ten years will decide if our society can transform into a sustainable one, or if it will follow the way of the Roman and Mayan civilizations, and simply collapse. Will Steffen, Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society, is optimistic.

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[david81672able]

science is guesswork with impressive math equasions. anyone who denies that makes science the next religion. i have a theory though. if the worlds problems wernt so bound up in corperations and political agenda's, some people might get on the band wagon, and cooperate with fixxing the planet, if they knew that this was ALL they were doing, and not getting roped into some left or right wing dictatorship. save the planet. what a ploy. "hey kid want some candy?" please. they dont care bout you!

[TheBlackKnight22]

Uh.. smart guy, we don't breath in co2.... and no, it won't if you pay any attention to Co2 levels we long ago hit a peak in co2 levels that we've never seen before in earth's history, and it continues to grow and grow and we are at a danger zone. I don't buy this BS "ooh nature has done it before.. its stronger than you think.." nature isn't some conscious force, it can't fight through the science and you can't fight the science either

[jwka2001]

Sure we should be good stewards to our environment but to try and control the climate is another thing. We should plant more trees and try not to pollute these are all good things. But when people want to change society into an image they want, that is bad. Nature isnt stagnant that is the best part, its always changing. And most experts say we can have more co2 in the air we'd still be ok. Nature is stronger than you think, we are mere ants on it.

[thelion2430]

my problem with words is because this language is not my mother language i learned this on my own...so it is not perfect...but it seems your point is really against logic and reasoning...humans have raped too and rape today and that dosent mean that it is something that we should just watch and dont do nothing...( this example is against your point that ooo everithing is normal and natural so we have just to move on we have no Environment problems etc etc....that is just nuts...really

[jwka2001]

first off, wtf are you trying to say, think clearly then word the sentences better next time.We breath more co2 than we do oxygen, so we can have more co2 in the air and still breath just fine. Of course you'll bring up some over exaggerated level of co2 and say thats what i want. You dont give the Earth credit, its been doing this for billions of years, if more co2 is in the air, more plants will grow, leveling it out. Nature thought all this shit out before us,,lol

[jwka2001]

google climate gate, look up anything with lord christopher monckton, he is good on info. Ummm nasa website has some good info on satellite data. Plus of course the guy who founded weather channel is suing them for lies.. Its not really that hard to find good hard info on climate studies, of course this info is all over since people for over a hundred years have been saying the sky is falling with the 'global-warming-global-cooling­-whatever' hype for so long

[thelion2430]

and another point...even if the warming i not man made the problem is that we have too much CO2 in the air...and the fact is that CO2 is not good for humans....so even if the warming i not man made we still have to reduce the poison in our air.