Earth-week speaker series at UW-Stevens Point 2016.

"The talk is a synthesis of 3 aspects of our modern human predicament: 1) that energy underpins nature, as well as human systems, and the fossils that modern civilization is built upon are taking more and more fossils (oil) to extract, thus having major implications for our economies 2) that humans in aggregate are large enough to impact planetary ecologies, and that we are in the midst of the 6th mass extinction, and its of our doing (though not our 'fault') 3) that underpinning all of this are brains and behaviors that were adapted to living on savannahs of Africa over tens of thousands of hunter gatherer generations, and that our stone age minds are ill-equipped to handle the modern Star Wars culture. Quite simply, we evolved to be wrong. There is a list of 25 Flawed Assumptions underpinning modern (western) culture, and a concluding list of 30 things you can do as individuals to better prepare for a future different than most expect, and a plea to engage in that future, however you see fit, in pro-social ways." - Nate Hagens