Carla Winterbottom shares this chance to chat more globally…
From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift
You are invited to EcoRes Forum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the free exchange of knowledge and ideas concerning society and climate change, invites you to join us for the first in a series of online e-conferences focusing on the ethical, political and socio-cultural aspects of climate change. The series, which will be offered free of charge, starts off in April 2007 with a two-week dialogue on a topic of increasing urgency: expanding and accelerating an ecocentric philosophy among societies around the world.
The need for such a shift has long been recognized. At the November COP gathering in Nairobi, Kofi Annan cautioned, “The question is not whether climate change is happening but whether, in the face of this emergency, we ourselves can change fast enough.” As US political hopeful Al Gore observed, based on the UN’s Rio Declaration of Environment and Development, “Our challenge is to accelerate the needed change in thinking about our relationship to the environment in order to shift the pattern of our civilization to a new equilibrium — before the world’s ecological system loses its current one.”
There is an impressive line-up of panelists and, I hope, equally impressive opportunities for online conversations with many people from everywhere.
