2024-04-19T01:51:23Z http://www.occupycafe.org/video/video/listTagged?tag=happiness&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-08-01:6451976:Video:29247 2012-08-01T13:39:46.090Z Brian McConnell http://www.occupycafe.org/profile/BrianMcConnell

<a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/video/welcome-to-the-anthropocene"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="135" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1514036269?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=135" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>"In June 2012, "Welcome to the Anthropocene"—a film about the state of the planet—opened the UN's Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The summit was the largest UN meeting to date.<br></br> <br></br> A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force…

<a href="http://www.occupycafe.org/video/welcome-to-the-anthropocene"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1514036269?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=135" width="240" height="135" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />"In June 2012, "Welcome to the Anthropocene"—a film about the state of the planet—opened the UN's Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The summit was the largest UN meeting to date.<br /> <br /> A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes."<br /> <br /> See also: "Welcome to the Anthropocene" by John Fullerton (06/06/2011) at Capital Institute.<br /> <br /> "Our greatest opportunity, and our most urgent responsibility, lies in enabling and accelerating a consciousness shift to an ethos of collaboration in our economic affairs, rather than ever-greater competition. Difficult for sure, but there is no palatable alternative."<br /> <br /> <a href="http://capitalinstitute.org/blog/welcome-anthropocene">http://capitalinstitute.org/blog/welcome-anthropocene</a>