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MFA in Collaborative Design
October 12, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
The PNCA Mediatheque is part of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and is also home to the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture which hosts exhibitions with artists.
Reversing Inequality: Closing the Wealth Gap on a Finite Planet
Workshop, 11am-1 pm
We are living in a time in extreme inequality. What is the current picture? What are the driving causes of inequality? What will it take to reverse these trends –and how do we do it in the context of a finite planet? What’s the strategy, given the capture of our political system?
Rob Dietz is Program Director of Post Carbon Institute and co-author of Enough Is Enough.
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, co-editor, Inequality.org and Board Member of Post Carbon Institute. He is author of Born on Third Base and co-author with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth.
Reducing Inequality on a Finite Planet: How Equity is the Underappreciated Cornerstone of a Sustainable Society
Presentation, 7-8 pm
Please join the MFA in Collaborative Design to welcome author Chuck Collins to discuss innovative strategies for reducing inequality and creating an equitable and sustainable society for all.
Many economists and activists believe we can reduce extreme wealth inequality through ginning up the economic growth machinery and distributing the rewards more fairly. But what if such growth is ecologically unsustainable? There are too many people consuming too much stuff. Humanity is facing an overshoot crisis as evidenced by climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem breakdown.
We need drastic changes in our economy to start walking the path toward a sustainable society. One of the most critical changes is to reduce the dizzying gap between the haves and the have-nots. Many people fail to appreciate the link between equality and sustainability. In a world of finite resources and increasing competition for those resources, we need economic institutions and policies that promote equality rather than a grab-what-you-can race to the bottom.