Comments on: The Great Disruption – now available in most media formats!

By: doug

doug — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:40:14 +0000

thought you might be interested in this website- Maintaining and restoring Earth’s ecosystems may be key to combating climate change.http://www.sciencecodex.com/

By: Gary McNamara

Gary McNamara — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:07:27 +0000

I enjoyed the lecture as I heard it abridged through Background Briefing. The notion of a Global Ponzi Scheme, and Global Warming only being a symptom. The example is a good tool and your frank sardonic(?) manner of delivery was refreashing. It tapped into something I have held since my HSC (100 million years ago..it seems) when I studied Confronting The Future with BIrch Toffler et al as my English option. It also taps into some of the “Club of Rome Stuff” that popped up in the seventies (before I knew about it) and came around again on ABC late Night LIve with Phillip Adams.

Recently I have referred to it as being like the Easter Islanders historic demise as a society (Also Jared M. Diamond). It is also interesting to juxtapose your solutions with the thinking as described by Melvyn Bragg in his In Our TIme Podacst on the thinking of the School of Logical Positivism Thursday July 2, 2009 but also contrasting with Corporatism by John Ralston Saul.

By: Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier and its implications for business strategy - Paul Gilding

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:59:40 +0000

[...] I argue in my Great Disruption writing and talks (see here for relevant links), human history shows we rarely respond to major threats until we declare it a [...]

By: Mike Ives

Mike Ives — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:44:15 +0000

A truly stirring lecture thanks Paul

By: Okolie, kevin

Okolie, kevin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:09:14 +0000

Paul.
Thanks for this wonderful episode.