Name: How today's truths shape tomorrow's possibilities
Uploaded: 2019-02-15T23:01:16Z
Duration: 13 min 28 s
Description: For centuries, we believed the Earth was flat, that the sun rotated around the Earth. These were absolute truths, until ... they weren't. Which of our accepted truths will fall apart in the years ahead? Financier-turned-philosopher Yannick Roudaut believes we're on the cusp of another historical reckoning -- and another renaissance.

For centuries, we believed the Earth was flat, that the sun rotated around the Earth. These were absolute truths, until ... they weren't. Which of our accepted truths will fall apart in the years ahead? Financier-turned-philosopher Yannick Roudaut believes we're on the cusp of another historical reckoning -- and another renaissance.

Yannick Roudaut: How today's truths shape tomorrow's possibilities

How today's truths shape tomorrow's possibilities

The 2007 subprime crisis catalyzed a finance expert's realization that our global economic model was driving us toward disaster.

Yannick Roudaut outlines how historical certainties can collapse, urging a fresh paradigm for sustainable economic models.

Exploring the need for a 'Universal Declaration on the Duties of Man towards Nature,' Roudaut calls for a new respect for ecological limits.