Week 7: Where is humanity heading?

Are we looking at a business as usual model, a descent into barbarism or a brave new world for our species?  Will our species itself change; are we just a transition between primitive ape and civilized human? This topic incorporates the Great Transitions Initiative and scenario building and other tools as a theoretical background. It then goes on to more practical approaches to desirable futures such as Global Millennial Goals etc. It then moves on to explore local examples such as practiced in the Transition Towns movement or the more global approach of the ‘Earth Charter’ (officially endorsed by UWA and practiced eg. in this MOOC).