Could Climate Change Be Good for Humanity? The Long Now Foundation - Cowell Theatre Are we the first civilization to try and innovate our way out of climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world?Sander van der Leeuw, Director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute, has spent his career studying these questions. During his seminar, van der Leeuw explores this research into the past, as well as its application to our current global predicament.