FINAL REMINDER: Dr. Jack Alpert | Civilization's Predicament and Its Unwinding Behavior – part 2 of 2 | 29 Oct 2025 | CACOR Live
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Topic: Civilization's Predicament and its unwinding behavior - part 2 of 2
Speaker: Dr. Jack Alpert
Time: Oct 29, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Summary:
Energy and mass flows describe the unfolding of civilization. Over the last 200 years those flows increased. Each year they supported an ever-larger global population with ever grander lifestyles. Unfortunately, this century these flows, due to the earth's crustal limitations, may decline back to their 1750's levels. Unless energy deliveries from solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, fission, and fusion can come online and replace lost fossil deliveries, human population and lifestyles will also drop back to the 1750's levels.
The videos, Jack Alpert presented at CACOR:
1. "A non injury producing civilization" CACOR Feb. 16, 2022 (amended) ”How the World Works"
2. "Civilization's running out of gas story" CACOR Apr. 26, 2023
3. "Human predicament and the unwinding" behavior" CACOR Aug 20, 2025
suggest our civilization's momentum toward human extinction is so large that managing it may require preventing all births in the present global population.
Assuming the existing population does not have births, today's video "Civilization's Path Forward" CACOR Oct. 29 2025, imagines the activities required to complete humankind's transition to a viable civilization.
These include:
1. 8 billion people gracefully exiting through old age.
2. The decommissioning and detoxification of global infrastructure.
3. designing, building, loading, and launching a replacement infrastructure, civil organization, and population.
My objective in presenting this video is to recruit individuals to design these activities.
Click here to see a map of various paths and activities to various future conditions.
Click here to see a preview of the talk's video.
Biography:
Dr. Jack Alpert is the director of Stanford Knowledge Integration Lab, a Lab which he started in 1978 at Stanford University. In 1992, the Lab left Stanford and became a nonprofit research foundation. The research focused on how people gather and process information to understand dynamic systems. Over the years, the Lab has transitioned its focus to the relationship between human cognition and civilization viability. The current work is on discovering and implementing a viable civilization.
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