January 30, 2024
That means it’s time for a critical assessment: What have we learned since the report was published? Did it serve as a guide to rethinking business, politics and the environment? “50 Years of Limits to Growth – What Comes Next?” was the name of the event organized by the Federation of German Scientists, a German NGO, and the Liz Mohn Center to provide answers to those questions and examine what still needs to be done.
The results are sobering: The challenge is enormous and can only be overcome if the global community acts as one. And yet there is hope that humanity will succeed – that was the conclusion drawn by the high-profile speakers, especially Professor Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, one of the environmental movement’s pioneers, who provided an unsparing analysis of the situation, and Professor Julian Nida-Rümelin, the internationally acclaimed philosopher, who called for every individual to take responsibility for the future.