Organizers:
Czech Association
European Support Centre
Hungarian Association
Slovak Associatin
U.S. Association
Department of
Development Studies,
Palacký University
of Olomouc
Learning from the Futures
How can we learn from the future - not knowing how it will look like?
At first sight, the title seems to be a paradox - and did not humankind prove to be unable to learn even from the past?
Several National Associations of the Club of Rome and the Millennium Project will meet at Palacky University Olomouc in
2010 in order to discuss possible futures and outline scenarios and pathways which might lead to desirable or undesirable futures.
From these possible futures, we will derive lessons for the present.
Humankind is in a new situation today. Not only business has globalized, and NGOs. The environmental problems like climate change have a global dimensions.
While the developed countries largely fail to reduce their ecological footprint, they expect the developing ones to follow sustainable pathways.
And the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)should be achieved within a few years, but it is very probable that humankind will fail again to
ensure adequate living conditions for everyone on Earth.
Which are the scenarios for our future? The event will describe risks and opportunities and will outlime possible measures which go beyond present cosmetics.
The conference "Learning from the Futures" which is held in English language, is followed by an expert workshop on climate change and ethics on September 7 and an event in Czech and Slovak language on September 7-8.
