Dr. Jack Alpert | Civilization's Predicament and Its Unwinding Behavior |20 Aug 2025 | CACOR Live
Art Hunter
You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting.
Topic: Civilization's Predicament and Its Unwinding Behavior.
Speaker: Dr. Jack Alpert
Time: Aug 20, 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.
In the last two minutes of this 31-minute video, a behavior is proposed that causes much pain and prevents the injuries during civilization contraction. The video helps the chooser of the potential behavior quantify the injuries on each path.
Biography:
Dr. Jack Alpert is 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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All future CACOR Live speakers presently scheduled:
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20-Aug-25 |
Dr. Jack Alpert |
Civilization's Predicament and Its Unwinding Behavior. Part 1 of 2 |
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27-Aug-25 |
Jason W. Moore |
Climate History, Climate Crises, Climate Revolts: A Ridiculously Brief History |
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03-Sep-25 |
Dr. Dana Fisher |
Saving Ourselves in Times of Crisis. |
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10-Sep-25 |
Joseph Merz |
An update on the behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot |
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17-Sep-25 |
Dr. Brian Bedard |
Musings of an Itinerant Veterinarian |
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24-Sep-25 |
David Dougherty |
Group discussion: Nation-building projects that would make ecological sense |
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01-Oct-25 |
Nadia Ahmad |
From Carbon to Cooperation: Building International Pathways for Just Transitions |
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08-Oct-25 |
Dick Bakker |
OREC: Encouraging deployment of renewable energy |
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15-Oct-25 |
Dr. Ugo Bardi |
The End of Population Growth |
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2025-10-22 19:00 Wednesday in Ottawa is Thursday 09:00 in Australia |
Philip Lawn |
(TBD) (Using the Theme of Modern money and taxation) |
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29-Oct-25 |
Dr. Jack Alpert |
Civilization's Predicament and its unwinding behavior - part 2 of 2 |
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05-Nov-25 |
Dr. David Harries |
World Academy of Arts and Science 2025 AGM |
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12-Nov-25 |
Michael Wiggin |
Use of waste heat from nuclear reactors. |
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19-Nov-25 |
Julian Branch |
Asbestos cement water pipes, and ingested asbestos |
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26-Nov-25 |
Tal Engel |
Where are the Elders? The Startling Parallels Between Dying Ecosystems and Cultures. |
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03-Dec-25 |
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10-Dec-25 |
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17-Dec-25 |
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24-Dec-25 |
closed |
Week off |
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31-Dec-25 |
closed |
Week off |
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07-Jan-26 |
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Art Hunter
You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting.
Topic: Civilization's Predicament and Its Unwinding Behavior.
Speaker: Dr. Jack Alpert
Time: Aug 20, 2025 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89989379457?pwd=FboGbPDuwqtXSXdU2gcevrQZFlmBGI.1
Meeting ID: 899 8937 9457
Passcode: 812961
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.
In the last two minutes of this 31-minute video, a behavior is proposed that causes much pain and prevents the injuries during civilization contraction. The video helps the chooser of the potential behavior quantify the injuries on each path.
Art Hunter
Final reminder: You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live meeting.