UNESCO Green Citizens Pathfinder Explores How Will History Judge Us?
What if this isn’t the era humanity collapsed, but the era it woke up? The moment young people stopped waiting for broken systems to save them and began creating new ones themselves. As old institutions weakened, a different mindset emerged—less focused on status and control, and more on meaning, creativity, connection, and responsibility. Perhaps this generation is not lost, but the first refusing to inherit systems that no longer make sense. And from that refusal, new ways of learning, working, and living began to take shape.
Natalie Anne Kyriacou OAM - an Australian environmentalist, social justice advocate & author, delivers a powerful and deeply provocative address. Opening with the question, “How do you think we will be written about in history books?”, Natalie reflects on the contradictions of modern society — from climate inaction and political disengagement to social media, inequality, corporate power, and environmental collapse. With sharp humour and urgency, she explores what future generations may think of a civilization that possessed unprecedented knowledge, technology, and wealth — yet struggled to collectively act on the crises threatening its own future: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-green-citizens-pathfinder-natalie-kyriacou-explores-extinction-crisis-her-new-book
Natalie Kyriacou OAM is an award-winning environmentalist, writer, professional public speaker and company director with a passion for harnessing curiosity to solve nature crises. Natalie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and the Forbes 30 Under 30 honour for her services to wildlife and environmental conservation in 2018 and was recognised as one of The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators in 2022. She was the United Nations Environment Programme’s Young Champion’s of the Earth finalist for her innovation in wildlife and environmental conservation and is LinkedIn’s Top Green Voice. She is a board director at the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife, a board committee member at CARE Australia, the founder and chair of My Green World, a UNESCO Green Citizens Pathfinder, a member of the XPrize Brain Trust for Biodiversity and Conservation, and an Australian delegate and Climate Justice Lead at the W20 (the official engagement group of the G20): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Anne_Kyriacou