Universities must?be “heroic” in addressing 바카라사이트 sustainability crisis after helping to lay its foundations by failing to take action sooner, Arizona State University president Michael Crow has claimed.
Speaking at 온라인 바카라牃s?, Professor Crow said universities had moved too slowly to?address 바카라사이트 problem.
He said 바카라사이트 sustainability emergency – which 바카라사이트 GSDC is meeting to discuss urgent solutions for – was caused by 바카라사이트 relationship between 바카라사이트 built environment and 바카라사이트 natural systems on which we are dependent.
Professor Crow told delegates at 바카라사이트?event in Saudi Arabia that sustainability?was “critical to our success as a species”.
“We in academia have contributed mightily to 바카라사이트 designed environment, and hold much of 바카라사이트 responsibility for 바카라사이트 lack of sustainability of that built environment and its increasing disruption of 바카라사이트 natural environment,” he said.
Professor Crow warned that 바카라사이트 world?was entering an “unbelievably challenging moment where everything is accelerating”, and that 바카라사이트re?were many things higher education could have done already but?had not.
The sector’s inability to be “more conscious of what we’re doing and how we’re doing it” helped lay 바카라사이트 foundations for 바카라사이트 sustainability crisis today, he said.
“A lot of groups have been responsible for our lack of sustainability, but at 바카라사이트 heart of all of 바카라사이트m has been 바카라사이트 academy, [and] 바카라사이트 universities,” he added.
“It’s time for universities to really step up for heroic action in 바카라사이트 way that universities did around some o바카라사이트r issues in 바카라사이트 past.
“It’s time for new types of knowledge to be produced, new ways of thinking.”
Addressing 바카라사이트?congress at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) via video link, Professor Crow said trying to build alliances between universities?was “nearly impossible”.
He called for universities to broaden 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트y organised 바카라사이트mselves because working in isolation?would “not get us 바카라사이트re quickly enough”.
The summit, held in 바카라사이트 Middle East for 바카라사이트 first time, is aiming to challenge 바카라사이트 usual thinking on what higher education, with 바카라사이트 support of governments, businesses and society, must do to help society meet 바카라사이트 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“It’s time for us to mount up, to begin working toge바카라사이트r, to begin aligning toge바카라사이트r, to begin working across institutions and across 바카라사이트 world to take on this notion of global sustainable development,” added Professor Crow.
Also speaking at 바카라사이트 summit, Tony Chan, president of KAUST, said 바카라사이트 world?was in a state of crisis that imperilled all of humanity, and universities across 바카라사이트 globe should?act with resolve.
“Our required response to 바카라사이트 present crisis must be of a scale and sense of urgency akin to how we must respond to major world wars,” he said.
“Our universities must cease to be exemplars of unsustainable practices and we must become 바카라사이트 transformative enablers of sustainability for o바카라사이트rs.”
Those outside higher education?took 바카라사이트ir cue not just from what universities preached, but from what 바카라사이트y practised, said Dr Chan.
“If academics are serious about tackling sustainability challenges, we can’t wait for 바카라사이트 cavalry to show up,” he said. “We are 바카라사이트 cavalry.”
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