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Karl-Heinz Brodbeck
(born 1948) is Professor of Economics and creativity techniques at the Fachhochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fairness Foundation and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Tibet House in Frankfurt.
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„Increasing social and environmental problems of a world grown small make aware of the limits of purely quantitative growth."
Arne Traulsen
(born 1975) is director of the Emmy-Noether-Group Evolutionary Dynamics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön. He studied geophysics and physics at Kiel, Leipzig, and graduated (Ph.D.) in Kiel. Afterwards he was a member in the Research Group "Evolutionary Dynamics” at Harvard University.
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"Paradoxically, the freedom to withdraw from the common enterprise leads to enforcement of social norms. Joint enterprises that are compulsory rather than voluntary are less likely to lead to cooperation."
Jakob von Uexküll
(born 1944) is founder and CEO of the World Future Council in Hamburg. He is also founder of the Alternative Nobel Prize, co-founder of "The Other Economic Summit" and a former member of the Political Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. He is patron of Friends of the Earth International. He also is the author of "That we owe our children" and "Shaping the future - World Future Council: the role of the World Future Council.
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„We have been tricked into thinking that we are much richer than we are. Then the bubble burst. We have lived on credit, especially at nature’s expense. Economic cycles come and go. Along with debtors there are creditors; they offset one another. But the ecological debt with which we have encumbered ourselves will remain for many generations if not for ever.”
Harald Welzer
(born 1958) is a sociologist and social psychologist. He is head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen and supervisor within the new research area "Climate & Culture". Further Harald Welzer is professor of Social Psychology at the University of Witten/Herdecke and Affiliated Member of Faculty at the MARIAL-Center at Emory University in Atlanta, USA. His latest publication with Claus Leggewie is titeled “Das Ende der Welt, wie wir sie kannten. Klima, Zukunft und die Chancen der Demokratie“, S. Fischer Verlag.
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„If one values the chance of survival of one’s own children and grandchildren (….), then one will have to deviate from organizing one’s whole life according to the principle of growth.”
Klaus Wiegandt
(born 1939) Founder and CEO of the Foundation "Forum für Verantwortung", Editor of the 12 books "Future of the Earth". co-founder of the initiative "Encouraging Sustainability", until 1998 speakter of the board of the Metro AG.
Forum für VerantwortungMeinhard Miegel
(born 1939) is Chairman of the Board of the Denkwerk Zukunft - Foundation for Cultural Renewal and scientific director of the Ameranger Dispute of the Ernst Freiberger Foundation. Additionally he was scientific director of the Institut für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Bonn (IWG BONN) for more than 20 years. His new book titled "Exit - prosperity without growth" will be published in 2010.
Citation relating to the conference theme:
"What today is called wealth creation is increasingly just an attempt to eliminate damage that would not have occurred at all with a more solid growth."