From the legend of the "Great Flood" to the mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization, thousands of years of human civilization history have recorded a variety of ecological disasters.
Today, "carbon neutrality" and "carbon peaking" have become major global issues, revealing that human society is facing a common ecological and environmental crisis and will have to look beyond ideological barriers to find a common response.
In January 2022, Indonesia officially announced the "relocation of the capital". The combination of climate change and ground subsidence caused Jakarta to be covered by sea water in 30 years.
And another set of data is even more striking: Today, more than half of the world's population lives within 100 kilometers of the coast. If we can't control the global temperature rise within 2 degrees, then including Shanghai Pudong and New York Manhattan, Coastal cities are at risk of being submerged due to rising sea levels.
Therefore, climate change is not an unfounded concern, but an imminent crisis, which requires human beings to complete the transition to ecological civilization.
The topic of this issue of "Cultural Relativity" is "Transformation of Ecological Civilization". The program invites relevant guests from various fields such as politics, philosophy, business, art, etc. to discuss how to deal with climate change, and explore how Chinese and Western civilizations can have an in-depth dialogue for this with the possibility of integration.
Guests of this issue
Xie Zhenhua: currently China's special envoy for climate change, former director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, former deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission
Chen Lai: Dean of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Tsinghua University, and President of the Society for the History of Chinese Philosophy
Jerry Brown: American politician, former governor of California, now chairman of the California-China Climate Institute
David Rockefeller: Former Chairman of the Rockefeller Group, internationally renowned philanthropist
Susan Rockefeller: Documentary Filmmaker, Artist and Environmentalist
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]