Dialogue as Driver: Curating A Global Conversation for Planetary Change

A generation of attempts to improve global sustainability have produced extraordinary technological achievements, unexpected business shifts, and insufficient environmental results. A key reason is that social systems and political economies haven’t markedly changed. At a time of intense polarization, one key to planetary progress will be more-effective communication. What’s needed isn’t merely sharper messaging. It’s something humbler and harder: better dialogue, the kind that’s deeper, broader, more global, and more curious. What might that dialogue look like? How might it start?

Jeffrey Ball
Writer on energy and the environment