It’s your future. Be heard.
We’ve gotten a lot of calls from colleges and other groups who hosted viewing parties of the live webcast of the Fifty Forward forum this morning.
If your class watched it together, or if you got together with your colleagues at the office and watched it, please contact us and let us know. We’re trying to keep track of how many people tuned in.
If you missed it, check back soon. We’ll archive it on this site, including the amazing Q&A that followed. And as soon as we can, we’ll post photos, speeches, summaries and videos.
We’d love to hear what everyone thought about Mayor Nickels’ ideas and what you thought about the webcast in general.
More than anything, we’d love to hear what you think Atlanta should look like in 50 years. If you watched the webcast, surely you have some great ideas. It’s time to share them.
It’s your future. Be heard.
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April 18, 2008 at 1:56 am
The issue of sustainabilty means, simply, that we must realize that things - clean water, fuel, land, and countless other resources - are not limitless. Sounds easy, huh? Yet we struggle mightily at this concept.
I suppose the problem is one of lifespan. I mean, hey, I’ll be dead in 30 years, so our horizon, at best, extends through our concept of our children’s lives. But we really aren’t good at visualizing that. I have no real idea how my daughter’s life will be affected by what I do today, from an environmental standpoint. Sure, there is good science out there - which I believe - that states convincingly the environmental damage we are perpetrating today. But what does that mean?
We tend to take it on faith that things will go on without limits. All of us struggle even with the most basic and unrefutable limit of all - our mortality. And if we struggle to reconcile this, the ability to see beyond that, well, takes vision. It takes us to realize that everything has limits. And really, how hard is that?