WHY

"Why resist in the world in a critical and conscious manner, if you can content yourself with being a consumer? Because this idea of consumer exempts you from the experience of living on an Earth full of meaning, and open to different cosmovisions [ways of existence]."

(translated from the French translation)

Ailton Krenak in Idées pour retarder la fin du monde

(2020, éditions Dehors)

The ongoing global polycrisis underlines the entanglement of health, social, economic, cultural, environmental, ecological, and political crises mutually reinforcing each other and affecting both individuals and communities across the world unequally.

To address this polycrisis and the associated local realities, it is necessary to engage in collective action with a systemic and intersectional lens, working across disciplines to develop and share adapted, integrative, scalable, and long-term evidence-based solutions.

Such endeavour requires hope and ingenuity to engage in an equitable transition to low-carbon economies and reimagine a future of socio-ecological justice between humans and with non-humans, as interdependent and part of the same ecosystems, in which both can flourish sustainably.