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Website Search Streaming Video Video Playlists Includes Feature Films, Kistler Prize Acceptance Speeches, Interviews, Lectures, and Scholar Visions of the Long-term Future Recent Publications “Global Transitions and Asia 2060” Executive Summary [2.7 MB PDF] “Water – The Crisis Ahead” Executive Summary [2.1 MB PDF] Winter 2010 Newsletter [1.1 MB PDF] All Foundation publications are available for download from our Publications page. RECENT Events “Global Population and the Planetary Future – 2011” • Humanity 3000 Workshop • October 2011 Walter P. Kistler Book Award • Dr. Laurence C. Smith • October 2011 12th Annual Kistler Prize • Dr. Charles A. Murray • September 2011 Norman Myers Lecture • Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series • May 2011 “Global Transitions and Asia 2060” Workshop • Taipei, Taiwan • November 2010 Peter Ward Lecture • Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series • October 2010 “Managing the Future” • Talk by Sesh Velamoor • July 2010	Programs Humanity 3000 HOME \| SEMINARS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 \| SYMPOSIA 1 2 \| WORKSHOPS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Seminar 9 “Future of Planet Earth” Participant Statement Paris, France \| June 3–5, 2008 < Previous \| Main \| Next > Robert C. Milne What are the three most critical challenges facing Planet Earth going forward? 1. Virtual opportunities will replace natural circumstances. Physical and social demands will continue to subdivide supplies and opportunities. This process will encroach on availability and necessitate ersatz substitutions. A comparable physical and social adaptation to environmental facsimiles being substituted for actual situations will be required. 2. An increased recognition and acceptance of interdependence on a global scale. We are challenged by a necessity of recognizing and accepting the interdependence of systemic integrity, life processes, and individual equality taking precedence over dominance and disenfranchisement. 3. The ability to adapt and adjust to an exponential rate of change. In a matter of a few short decades our ability to acquire and store information is exceeding our present ability to evaluate and constructively utilize information to support our existence on a sustainable basis. There is the need to evolve in our use of energy and resources at a rate commensurate with dwindling supplies. Copyright © 1996–2011 Foundation For the Future. All rights reserved.