Joseph Merz | An update on the human behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot | Sep 10, 2025 at 16:00 EDT | CACOR Live
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Topic: An update on the human behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot
Speaker: Joseph Merz
Time: 2025-09-10 Wednesday at 4 p.m. EDT is 08:00 a.m. Thursday in New Zealand
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Summary:
"In September 2023, we published our peer-reviewed paper "World scientists' warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot", introducing our explicit framing of our ecological predicament as a crisis of human behaviour. The paper achieved significant coverage with almost 75,000 downloads, and still sits in the top 1% of all tracked academic research. Two years on we are preparing to publish a more in-depth paper, exploring how to we might overcome the behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot."
Biography:
"Joseph Merz is the Director and Chairman of the Merz Institute, a global interdisciplinary research institute, working to better understand and address the systemic and complex drivers of anthropogenic ecological overshoot, anchored at a behavioural level. A respected voice in environmental circles, Joseph's research and perspectives are regularly sought after by governments, institutions and organisations around the world. His contributions are further recognised through his positions as a Senior Fellow of the Global EverGreening Alliance and Advisor to Project Earth and the Stable Planet Alliance."
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