{"id":1016,"date":"2019-10-14T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2019-10-27T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T13:47:13","slug":"ciw-what-will-the-world-look-like-in-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/ciw-what-will-the-world-look-like-in-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"CIW: What Will The World Look Like in 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-10-14-12.03.34-e1572148296297-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1017\" width=\"564\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-10-14-12.03.34-e1572148296297-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-10-14-12.03.34-e1572148296297-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-10-14-12.03.34-e1572148296297-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-10-14-12.03.34-e1572148296297-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We would all like to know how progress will impact us as we move into the future.  This session provided insight into the ways we can envision that future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bina Venkataraman, author of &#8220;<em>The Optimist&#8217;s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age&#8221;<\/em>  talked about how despair is a factor because many people in the world feel that they do not have the vision, choices or understanding on how we can make things better.  Our job as a society is to make people that they have those choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She spent a lot of time traveling around the world examining what people do to make better decisions.  She had these two recommendations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Learn to imagine<\/strong>: Write a letter to future self.  This allows your imagination to take perspective of a specific person in the future.  It also gives you the freedom to take on any role you choose in that future.<\/li><li><strong>Play the long game<\/strong>: It is important to lock in policies for the long term. Giving people predictability is a crucial factor in allowing this to happen.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Architect Massimo Lepore took the stage to discuss what we can do to prevent climate change.  He supports many NGO&#8217;s that are working worldwide in critical areas.   His research showed him that 70% of people will live in urban areas by 2050.  One of our tasks is to figure out how we can prevent the abandonment of rural areas.  Figuratively, he wants to create a &#8220;green wall&#8221; movement to help prevent deserts and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the presentation he threw out lots of interesting statistics but the one that might have been most disturbing is that literally a TON of plastic goes into our oceans every 4 minutes.  The challenge is that a lot of that waste comes 3rd world countries that are not capable of stopping or reducing that flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time marches on and progress happens very quickly. Take a look into the ideas and leaders that will impact that progress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":1017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[548,497,545,517,546,547,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}