Somewhere in the predictions about Earth being unable to support 3.7 billion more people by the end of the century, a Saskatoon author is able to be hopeful. <\/p>\n
Paul Hanley's book ELEVEN, nominated for two 2015 Saskatchewan Book Awards, argues that a sustainable future for 11 billion people will require an ethical revolution that will wholly transform humankind. <\/p>\n
He's presenting \"11 reasons to be hopeful about the future (despite a lot of bad news about it)\" at the University of Regina this afternoon. <\/p>\n
The bad news, he said, is that according to an ecological footprint theory, humans are already over-taxing Earth's biocapacity by about 60 per cent and it will only get worse. <\/p>\n
\"To make the world work with that many people, I think we're really going to have to be a different kind of person,\" Hanley, 62, said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
He said the transformation process will result in a new culture, a new agriculture and ultimately a new human race. <\/p>\n
\"Since the Industrial Revolution, we've developed a vision of what a human being is, which is highly materialistic, and I think we can develop a new vision, sort of reconstruct who we are as a people,\" Hanley said, <\/p>\n
He can't predict exactly what the new human race will look like, but he said the change must be drastic - and should have started decades ago. <\/p>\n
However, he has ideas for what sustainable traits will emerge: people will be more service oriented, more communal, less individually competitive and will have an agricultural focus on health. <\/p>\n
But what about resistance from those who enjoy the comforts of materialistic living? <\/p>\n
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Original post: Somewhere in the predictions about Earth being unable to support 3.7 billion more people by the end of the century, a Saskatoon author is able to be hopeful. Paul Hanley's book ELEVEN, nominated for two 2015 Saskatchewan Book Awards, argues that a sustainable future for 11 billion people will require an ethical revolution that will wholly transform humankind. He's presenting \"11 reasons to be hopeful about the future (despite a lot of bad news about it)\" at the University of Regina this afternoon. Continue reading
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