by Olivia Delgado, 2025
The Council for Uncertain Human Futures is a group led by Clark University and two professors from the School for International Training, Paul LeVasseur and Walter Wright. Mainly concerned with climate change, it has been described as “an intentional conversation, which starts by discerning the social and political context in which we are gathering. We then acknowledge the planetary changes underway, the human behavior that led to them, and the implications unfolding. We ask how we might choose to behave, and how we live now, given what we have come to see and know together.”
Students have participated in the council for the past four years. In past years, the council has been a weekly, two-hour, in-person course that lasted for three weeks, but due to COVID, it has been moved to Zoom. Many students and teachers have said the council is a transformative experience, with very deep discussion.
