Preliminary program of the Symposium “Our Common Future”

1. HEALTH and MEDICINE:

  • Aging;
  • Essential drugs and vaccines;
  • HIV;
  • Malaria and yellow fever;
  • Emerging infection diseases;
  • Lifestyle diseases;
  • Mental health.

2. ENERGY:

  • Overview of energy of the Future;
  • Nuclear energy;
  • Petroleum;
  • International contracts and geopolitics;
  • Renewable energy.

3. DEMOGRAPHY:

  • Population growth (developing countries) and decline (developed countries);
  • Urbanization;
  • Migration and integration;
  • Transportation of goods and people.

4. WATER:

  • Management, pollution, ecosystems, mega deltas.

5. THREATS and VULNERABILITIES:

  • Nuclear weapons;
  • Natural disasters, asteroid impact and earthquakes;
  • Trafficking of people, narcotics, arms, contraband goods.

6. GLOBAL IDENTITY:

  • Role of education, INTERNET, travel, media.
  • Security;
  • Religions and culture;
  • Globalization –positive and negative aspects.
  • Discussion of "Intern. Juridic Code".

7. CONSERVATION OF WILD NATURE:

  • Biodiversity;
  • Forests and their resurrection;
  • Problems of World Ocean;
  • Defense of nature reservations.

8. ECOLOGICAL EQUILIBRIUM:

  • To prevent climate changes;
  • To prevent the increase of an ozone hole;
  • To find decision of the Gulfstream problem.

9. VERY FAR FUTURE

  • Ttanshumanism;
  • Krionics and immortability;
  • From civilization to supercivilization.
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