This event is produced by CASBS
in partnership with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, and the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University.
2pm PDT | 5pm EDT | 10pm BST
The struggle against climate change relies on a toolkit of scientific innovation, harnessing economic markets in new ways, and building new forms of global governance and cooperation. But such tools, and the thinking underlying them, are not enough. They operate within the constraints of an outdated paradigm. Recent scientific forecasts, as well as imaginings of possible futures based on them, paint a visceral picture of large-scale catastrophe averted only by larger-scale transformation. A zero-carbon, economically sustainable civilization will require fundamental political and economic power shifts between those who are heavily invested in the existing energy economy and those demanding a different, and new, moral political economy.
How do we inform and design a new moral political economy of climate change? What new institutional arrangements will reflect values friendly to a thriving earth while reducing inequality for its billions of inhabitants? Join Eric Beinhocker, Genevieve Bell, and Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation with Arun Majumdar as they explore ways of re-centering the environmental alongside the human in service of understanding, devising, and implementing systems that may help us deliver our future safely and sustainably.
Questions for the panelists? Send them to CASBS-events@stanford.edu.
Arun Majumdar - Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor | Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University Moderator
Eric Beinhocker - Professor of Public Policy Practice | Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford Panelist
Genevieve Bell - Distinguished Professor; Florence Violet McKenzie Chair | Director, School of Cybernetics Director, 3A Institute, Australian National University Panelist
Kim Stanley Robinson - Science fiction author Panelist
Suggested Reading
A selection of articles, essays, and media by or featuring our panelists.
I am a carbon abolitionist
Making the Fed's money printer go brrrr for the planet
The 4th industrial revolution: responsible & secure AI
Touching the future: stories of systems, serendipity and grace