Index of Slides : Text Mostly Version
- Our Biological Future
- Reading Assignment
- Apocalypse now!
- Cycles versus goal –life views
- Ecological view of future
- Sustainability vs progression
- Ecologists as prognosticators
- What is biodiversity?
- Consequences of biodiversity loss
- Threats to biodiversity
- Why is biodiversity important?
- Biodiversity and stability
- The human condition –how do we think and act?
- Attraction to the irrelevant
- Medicine as irrelevant
- Economic view of future
- Money trivializes our biological future
- Two parts of human nature
- Alternatives: Stay the same or change?
- Reasons to believe our political future is bleak I
- Reasons to believe our political future is bleak II
- Conclusions – possible outcomes