[19 April 2008] EarthStock Lecture: At this year's EarthStock event at Stony Brook University, the keynote speaker Hans-Peter Plag illustrated in his lecture "Sustainability: a mosaic of many small steps in the right direction" the scale of the challenge humanity is facing in its quest for a sustainable development of society, economy and the environment. Nevertheless, he concluded that there is hope and that humanity has a great potential and all the prerequisites to avoid a large-scale loss of civilization or extinction. However, that can only happen if we manage to utilize this potential and turn intelligence that currently serves ecological, societal and economic madness into a creative force propelling us towards sustainability.
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