I want to start with a short exercise. So, if you will join me, you can take a deep breath, pause, close your eyes if you prefer. I want you to think about what image comes into your mind when I say the phrase the war on drugs.Now for me lots of images come to mind. I think of police drug busts and seizures on the nightly news. Sniffer dogs at music festivals and on city streets.I think of arrests and mass incarceration. I think of the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. Perhaps like me, you also had TV show ...

Climate Change and Gender Inequality - Climate change disproportionately impacts women and girls, exacerbating existing inequalities [1] - By 2050, over 158 million women could be pushed into extreme poverty and 236 million into food insecurity due to climate change [2] - Women and children are 14 times more likely to die in disasters [3] - Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, escalating problems like displacement, poverty, and resource scarcity, leading to violence, trafficking, and exploitation of women and girls [9] - Only 3% of climate finance goes to women-led initiatives [23] Intersectionality and Vulnerability - Intersectionality, encompassing gender, class, nationality, language, and education, shapes how people experience inequalities [5] - In the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, 70% of the 230,000 deaths were women [3] - In Afghanistan, women form the majority of agricultural workers and face increased risks of violence, trafficking, and early marriage due to climate-related disasters [11][12][13] - In Southern Africa, women own less than 20% of farmland but are responsible for providing food, water, and family resources [15] - In Italy, 63% of heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 were women [16] Women as Agents of Change - Indigenous women-led communities have 60% lower deforestation rates [21] - Women are leading reforestation efforts in Kenya, with the Green Belt Movement planting over 51 million trees and employing 30,000 women [22] - Women in Bolivia lead on biodiversity conservation, and women in Afghanistan develop small-scale business practices to reduce waste [22] Policy and Inclusion - While 96% of national climate plans mention gender, only 27% ensure women have a seat at the decision-making table [19] - Legal, financial, and educational inclusion are key to boosting community resilience [23]

Se ami le risposte chiare, alza la mano. Sì, no. funziona o non funziona.È rassicurante, vero. Sapere esattamente dove si sta andando. Ma a quanti di noi è capitato di trovare problemi la cui soluzione non riuscivamo a incasellarla in una scatola.Beh, pensiamo a come ci hanno insegnato a risolvere i problemi. È un approccio a fasi. La prima fase ci chiede di definire il problema. La seconda fase ci chiede di trovare la soluzione.La terza fase è quella che in cui noi andiamo a implementare quella soluzione. ...

The year is 1054. Imagine that you're walking home after a long day of work. It's very dark, no street lights, no cell phones.And then you happen to look up and when you do, you see an incredibly bright flash of light and then seemingly out of nowhere appears this bright light. In fact, it was so bright it would have been visible during the day. The people of the northern song dynasty would have considered this a profoundly significant astronomical event.In fact, it proclaimed that an abundantly enlightened ...

Would you like to live on the moon. You haven't thought about that. When I first heard the term space migration, I thought maybe we have other problems here on Earth than thinking about space migration.I'm Zimun Blushka. I'm the director of the German Immigration Center in Bremaen, Germany. And for 20 years now, we are researching, analyzing, and presenting migration history in our museum.like the history of the Ukraine refugees who came to Germany in the year 2022 when Russia attacked the Ukraine or the Ge ...

Welcome to your everyday treasure hunt for a better tomorrow. I wanted to start this talk with this invitation because it holds two things. It's a wish and a confession. It's the wish that we never ever stop wondering and that we never ever stop hunting the ever day treasures that lie in wondering.And it's a confession because not long ago I almost did when I started this talk preparing working on it. I started doing it like I did it almost every time in the manner of a good academic speech well prepared we ...

How did I get here. How did YOU GET HERE. THAT Deborah Cox song, that's the song I sing every time I look in the mirror and I see this old face staring back at me that I don't recognize.But if I'm honest, it wasn't the old face staring back from the mirror that first gave me an indication that I was getting old. No, it was when I started showing up to events and young people, younger people started using labels to refer to me that I used to use to refer to people that WERE AGING THAT I LOOK UP TO. They star ...

[music] Let me ask you a question. If you plant a seed in the desert and it doesn't grow, is it the seed's fault or is it the soils. You see, that seed has everything it needs inside of it to grow into something extraordinary.Put that same seed in rich and fertile soil, and you'll watch it flourish. Now, some seeds, they rely on fertilizer. They rely on sunlight daily and to be watered.But other seeds, they have to live with limited resources. They have to learn to battle the harsh conditions to break throu ...

[music] All right. Thank y'all for breathing with me for a second. Um, my name is Karen Hwitt and I'm honored to have the conversation with the ever brilliant and powerful Dr.. Tree Lindsay on today. I say powerful because there is so much power in just words and um words mean things and we're going to talk about truthtelling and survival and liberation and what it means to keep speaking and writing the truth in this moment. Uh just to give a little bit of context because y'all need to know who I'm talking ...

It's 7:52 a. m. on a snowy Tuesday.I'm gripping the wheel of my SUV, inching down the 401 late again. I barely got my youngest into the schoolyard before the bell rang. And my coffee, it's cold and full on the kitchen counter.I forgot to drink it. I am boxed in by trucks, feeling anxious with one eye on the road, one eye on the clock. The windshield wipers are thuting like a metronome for a life moving too fast.And suddenly a thought hit me, sharp, clear, and terrifying. If I keep going like this, something ...