The Great Disruption: How humankind can thrive in the 21st Century. TEDxIowaCity - Paul Gilding - The Great Disruption. Fileshare/Sunday-Times-Review-TGD.pdf. Paul Gilding: The Earth Is Full (Video) Although I've done a hundred or so public talks around the world in the last few years around my book The Great Disruption, speaking at the opening session of the annual TED event is an experience and opportunity like no other.
Another speaker backstage, feeling similarly hyped about the opportunity, described it to me as being like "the world series of public speaking"! For me the pressure was really on because I was going into the lion's den of "techno optimists" -- those who believe that technology can solve everything. My message is a tough one for this audience -- that sure technology will do wonderful things for us, but the reality is we are going to face some very difficult consequences of our overloading of planet earth, and its too late now to stop those consequences. I argue strongly that humans are amazingly capable and will recover from this inevitable crisis and indeed in the end build a stronger and happier society.
Paul Gilding: The Earth is full. La Terre n’en peut plus, par Thomas Friedman. Modèle de croissance, climat, ressources, population : comment expliquer qu’alors que nous franchissons aujourd’hui toutes les lignes rouges, outrepassant aveuglément les capacités du système terre, nous continuions à faire preuve d’une telle indifférence apparente, s’interroge Thomas Friedman, l’éditorialiste du New York Times. « Lorsqu’on se trouve face à une circonstance si énorme qu’elle requiert de transformer radicalement la façon de penser et de voir le monde, le déni est la réponse naturelle.
Mais plus nous attendons, plus lourdes seront les réponses à apporter » constate l’écologiste australien Paul Gilding, dans son dernier ouvrage : la Grande Rupture. Au fur et à mesure que se multiplieront les impacts de ce bouleversement, estime-t-il, « notre réponse sera démultipliée en proportion, et nous nous mobiliserons comme nous l’avons fait durant la guerre. Par Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 7 juin 2011 Il ne s’agit pas de science-fiction. Cela semble utopique ? The Great Disruption: Amazon.fr: Paul Gilding: Livres anglais et étrangers.
Paul Gilding - Personal website of Paul Gilding. About Paul » Paul Gilding has spent 35 years trying to change the world, doing everything he can think off.
He’s served in the Australian military, chased nuclear armed aircraft carriers in small inflatable boats, plugged up industrial waste discharge pipes, been global CEO of Greenpeace, taught at Cambridge University, owned and run two ground-breaking sustainability focused companies and been a close confidant and advisor to the CEOs of some the world’s largest companies. Despite the clear lack of progress, the unstoppable and flexible optimist is now an author and advocate, writing his widely acclaimed book “The Great Disruption”, which prompted Tom Freidman to write in the NYT: “Ignore Gilding at your peril”. He now travels the world alerting people – in business, community groups, government and even the military – to the global economic and ecological crisis now unfolding around us, as the world economy reaches and passes the limits to growth.
“The Great Disruption” » Paul Gilding’s book The Great Disruption was released around the world over 2011 to wide acclaim.
It is now being translated into various languages. The Dutch edition has been released (see here) with the German version due for release in late 2012. A bracing assessment of the planetary crisis that we can no longer avoid-and the once-in-an-epoch chance it offers to build a better world. Paul Gilding (paulgilding) sur Twitter.