Our failure to imagine Planetary Security threats | Alexander Verbeek | TEDxMAHE

Climate change is a significant issue, and we are ignoring the security and economic consequences of this ongoing catastrophe. Alexander elucidates the failure to imagine the diversified effects of climate change on our beautiful world. He emphasizes our need to have a vivid imagination as that will aid us to anticipate and change the way we deal with paramount issues like security. Alexander Verbeek is a Dutch environmentalist, public speaker, diplomat, and former strategic policy advisor at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over the past 30 years, he has worked on international security, humanitarian and geopolitical risk issues, and the linkage to the earth's accelerating environmental crisis.
Currently, Alexander is Policy Director at the Environment & Development Resource Centre in Brussels. He also works internationally as an expert speaker and advisor on planetary change to academia, global NGO's, private firms, and international organisations.
Alexander is a World Fellow at Yale University and has been an associate or fellow at a number of international think tanks, a Visiting Fellow in the Peace and Conflict Department of Uppsala University in Sweden, and he is on the board of advisors of several international environmental initiatives. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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