Elisabet Sahtouris on the Essential Shifts

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Join evolutionary biologist and futurist Elisabet Sahtouris in a discussion about the pivotal shifts of our time. A committed optimist and someone who takes the long view, Elisabet sees challenges such as global warming and sea level change as a great opportunity for humanity to rise to another level of functioning. In this talk, she draws inspiration from the extraordinary designs provided by nature showing how we can live more lightly and sustainable. She sees abundant evidence for us transitioning from a primarily competitive and egocentric era, which is typical of young populations of any species, into an era in which we learn to cooperate and communicate as one global family. There is not, she feels, any reason to leave behind joy, health, and well-being in working current ecological challenges. In fact, our task is one of "standing up in our canoe," to use an indigenous metaphor, to see what is unfolding from a larger perspective.

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