About this video
We cannot predict what will happen next but we can be sure radical change is coming. The change required is so profound that it will amount to a change of age. The question is, how do we best learn our way into a better future? If the future is emergent then, by definition, there will be no blueprint. We cannot look to science or technology or government or ideology or any one thing on its own to provide a solution. A more integrative approach will be needed. Phil Hanlon explores in this video what this might mean for public health, and beyond. He argues that we will need to respond to the great transitions we face by creating change in four key areas or dimensions of life: inner change and cultural change will be just as important as external and structural change. This integrative perspective is predicated on the notion that a new consciousness is emerging, and that a new culture and set of social structures will emerge with this. In the final analysis, and despite the daunting nature of the challenges that confront us in moving towards a more just and sustainable form of society, we find reason to be hopeful. The lesson of history is that we can change, and many have already begun to do so.