Naomi Klein in her recent book ‘This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate’ (Klein, 2014) argues that climate change represents the most pressing problem facing our age. As HFE professionals we share this view and believe there is a strong collective will to address what we see as a failure to protect the natural and social environments that support us. While still acknowledging that HFE professionals cannot address these issues alone, we believe we are in a unique position to apply relevant skills and knowledge to assist in addressing the commonly identified problem areas including pollution, climate change, renewable energy, land transformation, and social unrest amongst numerous other emerging global problems. In this panel discussion we present a number of possible contributions from the macroergonomics sub-discipline that we believe well help society find solutions to the current predicament that we find ourselves in.
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