Our Spaceship Earth is 70% water, yet fresh water remains a scarcity in so much of the globe. Water resources are the single biggest cause of war and conflict geopolitically. Yet, solutions exist, if they are funded and supported, to wean ourselves off of harming our ground water and still providing enough clean clear drinking water for everyone.
On a global scale, human beings throw away a lot of food, more than 30% of all the food we produce, while 700 Million still go hungry and cannot get #enough. Do our present foodtech and agtech innnovations now make it possible for everyone to have enough food? Can we sustain a population of 10 Billion?
In an age of over-information, truth has become a scarce resource. #IsThereEnough #Truth is a conversation at the very heart of tribalism and disinformation. In a world where everyone has their own preferred facts,
do facts even matter ?.
Is Sustainability all about the planet? Or is it about the sustainability of human life? The late George Carlin famously said, "the planet is fine, it's the human beings on it that are f*&cked". Does the environmental movement's passion for Gaia inadvertently setup conflict between the planet and humanity? Is sustainability about both? Join us to find out.
Are we doing all that is possible to meet a $3.5 Trillion deficit in the investments that we have already identified that are needed to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals ? This event will be a conversation that asks how we can form and manufacture the capital required to meet that "human infrastructure" deficit we are facing to save more of us from future displacements and catastrophes.
Almost all of us see what should be done but many of us doubt we can make a difference. If our solutions are visible but there is not enough coalition to make it happen, it may be that the only thing we lack is enough courage.
Are money and wealth the same ? Money packages wealth but it is not wealth itself and knowing the distinction is as important as having the right coordinates on a map when you want to reach a destination. In the 20th century, our grandparents chased money to buy wealth with, and it came with a lot of collateral damage. Today we are looking to build wealth that we can sustainability monetize. In our search for a "circular" economy this may be the most important distinction of all.
Agreement is a human superpower few of us are good at. For 70,000 years we have been good at war, with a few periods of agreement in between. That matters, to life, to health and happiness and even to wealth and power. The question we are asking in this room is whether human beings can evolve to become agreement makers over their warrior past.
