Conference Presentation, Panel
Wake Up, Europe! Stories That Frame the Future
Milken InstituteJeremy Coller, Sylvia Earle, Lord Michael Hastings CBE, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick, Jay Shetty, Jayne Van Hoen
- Jeremy Collar anticipates achieving a lifespan of 100 years based on purpose, love, health, and gratitude, while forecasting that factory farming will become a stranded asset during Schopenhauer's third stage of truth.
- Collar's company aims to eliminate factory farming by the year 2117 (when he reaches age 98), having secured $4 trillion in chief investment officer interest for the Fair Farm initiative within 23 months of its December 2015 launch, with 15 of 16 large restaurant chains responding to investor campaigns regarding antibiotics.
- Collar predicts that pension plans and investors will deem future pensions pointless if global temperatures reach 120 degrees and urges ESG research providers to include factory farms in their reporting alongside palm oil and fossil fuels.
- Sylvia Earle warns that severe Earth degradation could necessitate human exportation to Mars by the end of the century, noting that oceans function as critical carbon and oxygen sinks now altered by fossil fuels and plastics.
- Earle estimates that 90% of large fish species are at historic lows due to overfishing and reports that half of the world's coral reefs have been lost since the 1950s.
- Earle highlights that 64% of the ocean remains in the high seas without current ownership, while noting that single-use plastics continue to threaten the planet's life support system without consumption changes.
- Despite 64% of the ocean being a global commons, Earle cites recent political protections in the Pacific, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, Antarctica, and the Arctic as evidence that nations are beginning to account for nature economically.
- Lord Hastings forecasts that a serious adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 will generate an estimated $12 trillion in additional annual business opportunities and create roughly 380 to 400 million new jobs.
- Hastings reports that approximately 850 million people (one in seven) currently face uncertainty regarding their next meal, while 758 million people globally remain illiterate.
- Hastings notes that the average refugee child spends 17 years in displacement, effectively wasting their education, while KPMG's living wage campaign in the UK has become policy and 30 Australian companies have joined forces to support Aboriginal reconciliation through skill transfer.
- Jay Shetty predicts that Millennials will comprise 75% of the global workforce by 2020 and Generation Z by 2025.
- Shetty reports that 450 million people struggle with mental health conditions, representing one in four individuals met, and cites 10,000 annual workplace deaths due to "karoshi" in Japan.
- Shetty states that 57% of job applicants lie about their skill sets and 55% lie about their responsibilities, often due to a lack of self-awareness rather than confidence.
- Shetty proposes a "virtual school of unlearning" to teach the critical 21st-century skills of learning, unlearning, and relearning, asserting that the intersection of love, skill, world need, and compensation is where humans find fulfillment.