Jon Kohl

Exhibition game played in a public city park. The players are wearing Oso Perezoso ("Sloth") uniforms, the unofficial national team of Costa Rica. Photo: Jon Kohl Throwing a frisbee on the beach is as different from the sport of Ultimate as walking a dog in a park is from international tourism. Most people toss their frisbee discs unaware that in 1968 a new game was born in the United States then called Frisbee Football.

Imagine a book that on one hand instantly becomes a global bestseller with 9 million copies sold in 30 languages and on the other provokes the ire of the entire capitalist world. That book Limits to Growth now celebrates 50 years since publication in 1972 and owes its existence to the Club of Rome which sponsored the MIT-based computer modeling research.

We all live on the same planet, but we experience different worlds. Some farmers might understand climate change as short-term weather change, while others perceive shifting rainfall and temperature patterns across decades. Some climate modeling scientists see climate change as interlocking cause-and-effect chains. Others understand that beyond computer models, culture also influences climate change.