Elisabet Sahtouris

Can Humanity Thrive in a Hot Age?
Sunday, July 29, 12:30 pm

Acclaimed evolution biologist Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris shows that the way we govern ourselves and our economies in the world today is closely related to our scientific/cultural understanding of an inevitable evolutionary struggle in scarcity. An updated scientific story of evolution shows this mode to be obsolete, inefficient, expensive, dangerous and unnecessary. The biology of sustainable, value-creating natural systems, from our own bodies to rainforests, has direct application to how economics and governance will work in the future to everyone's benefit. If we take our clues from nature and work with it, we can survive and even thrive in the Hot Age that is now inevitable.

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally known evolution biologist, futurist, author and professor. She teaches sustainable business and globalization as natural evolutionary processes and prepares us for a Hot Age in which much of human society will have to be reorganized for sustainability through severe climate change. She is a member of the World Wisdom Council and a fellow of the World Business Academy. Her venues include The World Bank, Boeing, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Tokyo Dome Stadium, Australian National Government, Sao Paulo's leading business schools, State of the World Forums (New York and San Francisco) and the World Parliament of Religion. Her books include A Walk Through Time: From Stardust to Us and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution . Her websites are www.sahtouris.com and www.ratical.org/lifeweb.