Panel Discussion MMXXV

What does it mean to exist in an era defined by perpetual motion? We speak of progress as though it were a straight line, a relentless march toward something greater but toward what, exactly? The world is not merely moving; it is shifting, fracturing, reconstructing itself in ways we barely comprehend. Laws are rewritten before the ink has dried. Institutions rise and collapse like waves on an indifferent shore. And in the centre of it all, we stand, observers, of a future we scarcely understand.

There will come a time when history looks back at us and asks: What did you do when the world was burning? Did you justify inaction with legal loopholes and diplomatic pleasantries? Or did you decide that some crimes are so vast, so irreversible, that they demand a reckoning? #Ecocide. A word that does not yet sit among the great crimes of humanity like genocide, war…