Deepak Chauhan

LA 29.5.2010 14:40-15:00, Amazon-lava, Rautatientori, Esityskieli englanti

Complex environmental problems such as climate disruption, impoverishment of ecosystems and toxification are threatening the future of humanity more than ever before. There is a clear need for reassessing the cultural foundations of present ways. Marko Ulvila and Jarna Pasanen outline a future scenario of degrowth for the over-consuming global class. Meanwhile there is need for empowerment for the struggling poorest classes.

Rajni Bakshi is an Indian freelance journalist who has written extensively about social and political movements in India, particularly on grass-roots struggles for an alternative, more creative model of development.