Description: Underlying the climate change crisis is a crisis in our collective ability to make decisions that support sustainability. This video highlights the connection between the challenges of responding to climate change and the capacities needed to engage in effective democratic decision making. It indicates that research in adult development helps us to understand these 21 century capacities. Public deliberation through deliberative democracy, when designed to support adult development, holds the possibility of improving our capacities to respond to complex public issues.

This video includes environmentalists Thomas Homer Dixon and Lester Brown , evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris, developmental specialists Robert Kegan, and Bill Torbert, and deliberative democracy and complexity specialists Shawn Rosenberg, Jan Inglis and Sara Ross. A study guide is being developed to accompany the video.

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