The Salisbury Conservation Commission has organized another free and public Zoom conservation presentation. We have 93 people registered already, but there is plenty of room for more. I hope you will join us.

Gus Speth will give a presentation entitled: Is our Current Economic System the Solution or the Threat to a Healthy Planet? on Wednesday, November 18th, at 7 PM.

In 2009, Gus Speth completed his decade-long tenure as the Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 1993 to 1999, Gus Speth was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (Carter Administration); and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. He is the author, co-author or editor of eleven books including the American Crisis series published by Yale University Press: Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (2004), The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2008), and America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy (2012). In 2014 he published a memoir, Angels by the River (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014), and in 2019 and 2020 he published two books of poetry. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1964 with a BA in Political Science, and subsequently earned an MLitt in Economics from Oxford University in 1966 as a Rhodes Scholar and his JD from the Yale Law School in 1969.

Gus says: Our current economic system is founded on individualism, anthropocentrism, and materialism. Can a system that prizes growth, profit, private enterprise, economic freedom, and commercialization be expected to adequately respond to climate challenges and other environmental issues? If not, where do we go from here?

To pre-register for Gus Speth's presentation visit:

https://forms.gle/aeL9bLVw3HJAUZTk6

We will also record the presentation and make it available online. If you would like to read some of Gus Speth's books, or books written by our previous speaker Tom Wessels, those books are now in the Salisbury Public Library.

Jim Andrews
642 Smead Road
Salisbury, VT 05769
802-352-4734
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