Nothing more to add to this -- as always -- extraordinary message by Christiana Figueres, other than thank you! Let's all rise in our individual chairs and give her the standing ovation (among many) that she deserves. Consider a stretch break!
Global Climate Leader 🔸 Co-Host, Outrage + Optimism 🔸 Former UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Chief Negotiator of the landmark Paris Agreement of 2015 🔸 Founding Partner, Global Optimism
We talk a lot about the polycrisis and many feel we are facing an existential crisis. My question to you: what if this existential crisis is actually inviting us to an existential catharsis where we accelerate our understanding of the fact that we are an integral part of the web of life? What if we shake off those human constructs that are so foreign to the way the rest of nature operates? We've adopted them for centuries but maybe we're realising now that they are like a jacket that doesn't really fit. What if we say, hang on a minute, this is not my jacket? What if we just shake all of that off and ask ourselves what the real human condition is? What is humanity's real role here? Maybe it's completely different to what we've been told, to what we've grown up believing. Maybe it's a role of collaboration, belonging and caretaking rather than of competition, domination and extraction. I talk more about this with Isabel Cavelier Adarve in #OurStoryofNature, our new Outrage + Optimism miniseries - you can listen here: https://bit.ly/3SxABhs
