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  • we're in a nowhere place between one era and another.

  • We're living in a moment in time, not just of collapse, not just the moment when something is dying, but also in a moment in time when when something very powerful is emerging.

  • We're starting to see that it's no longer a case of mitigating our emissions of reducing our emissions to stave off.

  • Climate change.

  • Climate changes are underway.

  • We've already changed the climate.

  • It's a dangerous delusion to think that space office and escape from us problems dealing with climate change on earth is a doddle compared to terraforming mars.

  • There's no planet B for ordinary risk averse people.

  • The reason you're here today and I'm here today and everyone else is here today and most of the living world is here today is because of soil and it says tiny, this tiny thin layer between rock and air on which everything depends.

  • And yet we treat it like that.

  • Much of the work that we do has to stop if we've really got any chance of reaching net zero.

  • So we need to think in a fundamentally different way about how we transition from one form of work to another.

  • Our own ambitious definition of regenerative design and development is that which supports the flourishing of all life for all time.

  • Much of the debate was dominated about redistribution that we forgot about contribution and we forgot about rebuilding the fabric of this country with the greatest asset that we have, which is its people, you give people a sense of belonging and therefore meaning and purpose in life And as a doctor and evidence based scientists guess what.

  • You get better outcomes.

  • We want to short circuit through advocacy and action.

  • The more than 130 year timeframe currently predicted for ending gender inequality globally.

  • Can we make things better and fairer for all the reasons I've outlined earlier?

  • If you don't do that in the curriculum, then the same cycle repeats and you get to 2022 you're still talking about racism.

  • If you give up on the idea that people's minds can change that, you can reach people, you can find common ground with people.

  • Once you give up on those things, you're essentially opening the door to tyranny the political, via the civil war.

  • The short answer is to really imagine, articulate and express the affirmative vision of what a world will look like with greater justice as soon as you recognize that resilience is a collective strength rather than this individual thing that some of us have gotten, some of us haven't got.

  • So you recognize that these examples of it everywhere around you, we actually need to be thinking not just about the people who are on our planet now, but the future generations.

we're in a nowhere place between one era and another.

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