Environment Seminar Series: Climate Breakdown: A Symptom of a Deeper Malaise with Jeremy Lent
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About the Seminar
While we need urgent responses to climate breakdown, we will only make meaningful progress once we recognize that it is a symptom of a deeper underlying malaise affecting our society. Climate must be understood as one aspect of a multifaceted process of global ecological degradation caused by problematic characteristics of our socio-economic system. In this talk, author Jeremy Lent explains how the underlying cultural foundations of modern civilization have led to our current crisis, and identifies the key leverage points that could redirect our society toward a more sustainable and flourishing future. Lent will show how it’s possible to envisage a robust foundation on which a coherent civilizational framework could be established to set the conditions for all human beings to thrive on a healthy, vibrant planet.
About the Speaker
Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His more recent award-winning The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future. He is the founder of the Deep Transformation Network, a global community exploring pathways to an ecological civilization, and the nonprofit Liology Institute dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth. He writes topical articles exploring the deeper patterns of political and cultural developments at Patterns of Meaning.
This year, the Environment Seminar Series will be hosted online via Zoom but also streamed in ES 1042 on the University of Toronto - St.George Campus. Participants have the option to join online per usual or watch the online seminar in person.
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