Ben McCall is the initiator and Founder of the Planetary Limits Academic Network (PLAN), Professor of Sustainability, and served as the inaugural Executive Director of the Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton.
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In conversation: Dave Murphy and Tom Murphy – Can modern civilization ever be sustainable?
Can modern civilization survive for the long term within planetary limits? This dialogue pits optimism about renewable energy and human adaptability against a more fundamental critique: that modernity itself may be incompatible with ecological sustainability.
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In conversation: Dave Murphy and Tom Murphy – if modernity can’t last forever, what comes next?
If modernity cannot endure within planetary limits, what comes next? Dave Murphy and Tom Murphy debate the likelihood of collapse, the possibility of adaptation and what we owe each other in a time of ecological overshoot.
April 27, 2026
In conversation: Dave Murphy and Tom Murphy – can modernity survive planetary limits?
In a wide-ranging exchange, physicist Tom Murphy and energy scholar Dave Murphy explore the tension between optimism and planetary limits, debating whether modernity can endure or must give way to something entirely new.
April 23, 2026
