The Earth System View

A best-selling author and journalist based in Canberra, Australia, Julian Cribb has been reporting on science and agriculture for decades. He has become increasingly concerned about the human culture’s inability to recognize its own peril where our Earth’s living...

Professor of Conservation Biology and Environmental Futures at the University of Washington and Research Associate on climate and biodiversity vulnerability at the University of Cape Town, Phoebe Barnard, has been focused for decades on protecting the natural world from...

William Halal is an emeritus Professor at George Washington University. He was co-founder of the university’s Institute of Knowledge and Innovation. More recently, Halal created TechCast, a think-tank focused on Strategic Foresight for a Changing World. The TechCast team...

Robyn Alders is a veterinarian and an Honorary Professor with the ANU Development Policy Centre, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences at the Royal Veterinary College in London and Veterinary Department...

Bob Douglas is a retired Australian Medical Public Health Academic. He has spent much of the past 24 years, since his retirement, contemplating the future of humanity and the dangers and possibilities facing his children and future generations. In...

Rosie Bell once earned her living on the opera stage. Now a writer working primarily in public climate narrative and inner-outer transformation for sustainability, she collaborates regularly with the Climate Majority Project, the Inner Development Goals Initiative, and the...

Victor Vahidi Motti, based in Washington, D.C., is a distinguished Foresight Scholar. His contributions extend across various mediums, notably his 2019 publication, "A Transformation Journey to Creative and Alternative Planetary Futures". This work is emblematic of his visionary outlook,...

Joan Diamond’s career has spanned public education, corporate leadership, and, for the last 30 years, as executive director in civil society organizations covering nuclear threats, environmental degradation, and the all-inclusive human predicament. She is an experienced scenarist, running sessions...

A.J. Jacobs has authored 11 books and four best-sellers, including his latest, "The Year of Living Constitutionally." He has long been an Editor-at-Large for Esquire Magazine. He finds humor in much of what he does. He once outsourced his...

As Chairman of the American Geographical Society, Chris Tucker launched a multi-year strategic dialogue known as Geography 2050, which is focused on the vital trends that will reshape the geography of our planet over the coming decade. Chris’ highly...