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Dr. Carmen Hust and Gordon Kubanek | Social Density Stress as a Missing Limit to Growth. | CACOR Zoom Presentation 2023-07-19
July 19, 2023 @ 13:30 - 16:00 EDT
Speaker: Dr. Carmen Hust and Gordon Kubanek
Topic: Social Density Stress as a Missing Limit to Growth.
Time: Time: Jul 19, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary
Consider the possibility that Chronic Social Density Stress [CSDS] should be included as one of the key Limits to Growth. Social and psychological issues affect our ability to honestly face our challenges and may be the key factor to our success in preventing our current ecological overshoot behaviour from turning into a collapse of the ecosystems and our social norms. We will also explore CSDS research, the rat paradise experiments, emotions as being contagious, epigenetic trauma, and the toxicity of our current individualistic culture. We will give you some beginning counseling skills so you can better cope with the CSDS. We believe that with these ideas and skills, you will be able to interact in a more healing and constructive manner with others. We see every interaction as an opportunity to reduce CSDS as it makes people more unreasonable and harder to talk with and believe that we can all do our bit to improve our chances of a better future.
Biographies
Dr.Carmen Hust, R.N.
Carmen earned her undergraduate Nursing degree at the University of Montreal, her Masters at Villanova University and Ph.D. From U. Ottawa. She is now the Chair of Nursing at the Algonquin College Nursing Program. She also does mental health counseling.
Gordon Kubanek, P.Eng., TSSF (Third Order Franciscan)
Gordon earned his Masters of Chemical Engineering degree from McGill and then spent most of his career as a High School Physics and Chemistry teacher in the USA, Australia, and Canada. He is a long time CACOR member.