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Over 7 billion human beings, degraded environment, declining economies, and soaring consumerism—such is today’s world. We are at a crossroads and our future is perplexing. The challenges that we now face, as a world and as human beings, are both critical and complex; they demand a multi-disciplinary approach to solutions.

This forum focused on providing practical information from multiple disciplines with the aim of sparking ideas to address complex challenges in industry, academia, government, and the world at large through systems thinking and innovation.

Panel I: Ethics, Economy, and Environment

Participants: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, John Sterman, Edward Delong, Penny Chisholm, Kerry Emanuel, Thomas Malone