How can we engage diverse ways of understanding our world? | Sustainability Public Debates 2023

In the Anthropocene epoch of today, we are facing a global polycrisis: the intertwined and cascading crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and socio-ecological vulnerability. To confront this polycrisis, what if we learned to engage other ways of knowing the world around us?
The third edition of the Norman Foster Foundation’s Public Debates on Sustainability took place on Tuesday 14 November 2023 with the support of Rolex, and explored a sustainable future in which more-than-human design re-engages with nature for compassionate co-existence.
The Public Debates were moderated by Nina-Marie Lister, Professor and Director, Ecological Design Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University; Founding Principal, PLANDFORM, Toronto, Canada.
With a five-minute keynote and debate between the following experts:
Maya Lin, Director, Maya Lin Studio, New York, NY, United States
Simon Kretz, Founder and Partner, Salewski Nater Kretz, Zurich, Switzerland
Mathis Wackernagel, Co-Founder and President, Global Footprint Network, Oakland, CA, United States
And a conversation between:
Mario Cucinella, Founder and President, Mario Cucinella Architects, Bologna, Italy
Nina-Marie Lister, Professor and Director, Ecological Design Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University; Founding Principal, PLANDFORM, Toronto, Canada

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But there is a way to take actions to stop the climate change, like you said, is better do something to the environment while they organize and decide to leave their economic interest’s in another place to the health of the 🌍

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And what about the government’s engage? Why there aren’t regulations to the factories that produce fuel energy derivates from carbon to the atmosphere? And Why the plastic factories
Are producing many products now, although this products have a terrible negative impact in the landscape and in the animals? And why all the government’s allow that? 😢😢😢