History For Tomorrow – Lessons From The Past To Inspire The Future Of Humanity
Philosopher Roman Krznaric and ClientEarth Global Director of Communications and Policy, Amy Fairbairn, present hopeful lessons from history that could help us overcome the global challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.
What can humankind’s rich history of radical revolts teach us about the power of disobedience to change climate policy? What inspiration could we take from seventeenth-century Japan to create a regenerative economy today? How might the history of financial capitalism help us understand what it takes to bring AI under control?
In conversation with ClientEarth Global Director of Communications and Policy, Amy Fairbairn, philosopher Roman Krznaric joins us to unearth fascinating insights and inspiration from the last 1000 years of world history that could help us confront the most urgent challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.
From bridging the inequality gap and keeping AI under control, to reviving our faith in democracy and avoiding ecological collapse, Roman will show us that history is not simply a means of understanding the past but a way of reimagining our relationship with the future.
He will reveal how, time and again, societies have risen up, often against the odds, to tackle challenges and overcome crises. History can offer a vision for radical hope that could turn out to be our most vital tool for surviving and thriving in the turbulent decades ahead.
Speakers:
Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher whose books, including The Good Ancestor, Empathy, The Wonderbox and How to Find Fulfilling Work, have been published in more than twenty-five languages. He is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing and founder of the world’s first Empathy Museum. Roman has been named by the Observer as one of Britain’s leading popular philosophers. His TED talk ‘How to be a good ancestor’ has been viewed over 1.5 million times.
Amy Fairbairn is the Global Director of Communications and Policy at ClientEarth, the environmental law charity. She’s worked in communications for more than 20 years and before joining ClientEarth, was the Strategic Communications Director at Global Canopy, focusing on shifting global finance away from nature destruction. Amy also serves as a trustee of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, which has recently revealed a 100-year rewilding project in Scotland.
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