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program.

Millennial assessments of the environmental problems confronting
people of all nations have shown that the problems are severe
and, in large part, the product of human activities. Climate change,
decline of food security, loss of biological diversity, depletion of
water and other vital resources with consequent conflict, use of
unsustainable and environmentally malign energy technologies,
deleterious changes in patterns of land use, and toxification of the
planet with unregulated pollutants that may be dangerous even in
traces, all threaten the human future. Yet society stubbornly refuses
to take comprehensive steps to deal with them and their drivers,
population growth, overconsumption by the rich, and the
deployment of environmentally malign technologies.

Through a MAHB inaugural global conference, involving scholars,
politicians and a broad spectrum of stakeholders, followed by
workshops, research activities, and the construction of a human
dimensions portal, the MAHB will begin to re-frame people's
definitions of, and solutions to, sustainability problems. The MAHB
would encourage a global discussion about what human goals
should be (i.e., "what people are for") and examine how cultural
change can be steered toward creation of a sustainable society. A
key task will be to get governmental buy-in and the support of
other key decision makers in the media, industry, academia,
religious communities, foundations, and elsewhere who can
participate in the discussion and are in positions to amplify
outreach and help to accelerate needed changes in public
perceptions and institutional structures.