Can individuals make a difference?
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About the video: ‘Can individuals make a difference?’
Professor Laszlo talks about his book “You Can Change the World” – published by Positive News. He talks about how a more peaceful and sustainable world is possible through individual action and how the book might serve as a guide. Quoting Mikhail Gorbachev, who contributed an introduction to the book, he suggests it is up to each one of us to make a difference. Once we decide to live in a world that is worth passing on to our children, “then even the politicians will come around.”
Total views: 3,969
Filmed: The Great Rethinking. Oxford, UK on 22 August 2003
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Petica Watson
Copyright © 2003 Big Picture TV
About Ervin Laszlo
Dr. Ervin Laszlo is a leading systems theorist and is the Founder and President of the Club of Budapest.
He is also the Director of the General Evolution Research Group and Science Director of the International Peace University of Berlin.
He’ s author of several books, including “You Can Change the World: The Global Citizen’s Handbook for Living on Planet Earth: A Report of the Club of Budapest” (2003) and “Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and our World” (2008].
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