Summery for "A Sustainable Future"

According to the speaker, Alex Steffen, though the society we are living in has been extremely prosperous and dynamic, it has some major flaws that need to be improved in order to be more sustainable. The negative impacts caused by the ecological footprint of our society, the high tension in living resources brought by the unfairness in regional development, and the desires to build a more prosperous society from younger generation would probably lead our planet to a worst-case scenario. Then, the speaker also believes that if proper methods being applied, we can change the situation. Firstly, we can change the dynamic of our society by increasing its density, and once we manage to shorten the distance between each person, it would be possible to make the society a smart place with the help of information technology. Besides, for those newly emerged megacities in developing counties, we can use the idea of leapfrogging to spend resources in developing latest technologies directly instead of starting from old technologies. Secondly, we can also utilize new tools for collaboration, in technology, culture, politics and even in games. Besides, the creativity, cultural explosion, and education effects brought by all these tools respectively, would make our society more prosperous. As a conclusion, the speaker believes that if we add all these elements together, we can get a Bright Green future.