Slides for discussing the future in the humans+the environment class.

2. Thinking
about
the future

3. What will / should
the future look like?

8. Ecotopia
Ernst Callenbach

9. You have
a model
of where
we’re headed
or should head.

10. Sign your portrait of the future.
Leave yourself
a few notes about it.
Give it to a classmate
for safekeeping.

11. “Everything
we think we know
is a model.”

12. What is a model?

13. Whether mental
or mathematical,
models are
a simplified
representation.

14. Models can help us
to understand things.

15. All models
have limitations.

16. Models can be refined.

17. The world is at, nearing, or past the points of
peak production of critical nonrenewable
resources...
The global climate is being destabilized...
Freshwater scarcity is a real or impending
problem...
World food production per capita is declining...
Earth’s plant and animal species are being
driven to extinction...
The
Post Carbon
Reader

18. Rapidly reduce dependence of fossil fuels.
Adapt to the end of economic growth.
Design and and provide a sustainable way of
life for 7 billion people.
Deal with the environmental consequences of
the last 100 years of fossil-fueled growth.
The
Post Carbon
Reader

19. Stories...

20. help us communicate
information about...
situations (context)
models
expectations
and more

21. ClimateWisconsin.org

22. ClimateWisconsin.org

23. vs.

24. ClimateWisconsin.org

25. Stories...
explain
engage the imagination
spark new ideas
create a shared understanding
persuade
Storytelling for
User Experience

26. Ecotopia
Ernst Callenbach

27. Chapter 6

28. Thinking
about
the future thinking

29. Reading
Assignment

30. Introduction

31. Chapter 1

32. Assignment 3

33. Pick a system.
Think about it.