Behavior Change to Provide a Bright Future – Part 1
Developing Programs and Policy to Get Back Within Planetary Boundaries and On Course to a Bright Future
A conversation with Joseph Merz of the Overshoot Behavior Lab and the Future Behavior Lab
How can we help ourselves and everyone in the country make the dramatic changes needed to get our nation out of ecological overshoot and on a path to a bright future? Getting out of ecological overshoot – and doing it before the damage of overshoot is irreversible – will require a World War II level of effort. All of us – citizens, businesses, scientists and policymakers – will work together to completely reinvent our society, so that we give our kids not a dead planet, but a bright future.
Matt Orsagh eloquently described this need in his recent post:
We’ve begun to sketch this out on the Dave the Planet campaign website, and we’ve named it The Bright Future Project. It’s far from complete, however. In the newest episode of the Dave the Planet podcast, I sought valuable perspective and advice to help us plan that project. Joseph Merz is one of the people I would invite to serve on the “President’s Council on The Bright Future.”
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Merz was lead author of World Scientists’ Warning: The Behavioural Crisis Driving Ecological Overshoot. He is:
Founder and Chairman of the Merz Institute
on the Executive Committee of the Stable Planet Alliance
Senior Fellow of the Global EverGreening Alliance
The Merz Institute’s Overshoot Behavior Lab and Future Behavior Lab are doing work at a high level that we think would inform The Bright Future Project. We’ll continue refining the design of the project in the coming weeks. We welcome all suggestions. Watch for a part 2 of this podcast very soon!
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