Dialogues #24 - General Theme: The Era of Plastic

​!!! Notices !!!
- You can bring snacks to share. 🥐🥧
- Dogs are welcomed! 🐶🦴
- 18:00 - Doors open.🚪🍻
- 18:15 – Introductions 💬 and topics selection📝.
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​🫵🫵 ━━━ General Theme and Topic ideas ━━━🫵🫵
Debates on plastics often revolve around eliminating them altogether or innovating to make them sustainable. A popular activist slogan, “Break Free From Plastic,” is a good example of this divide.

• What is your perspective?
• Do we need new regulation?
• What should a new system of production, consumption, and disposal look like, and how could a transition period be organised?
• What are other reasons to change the way we handle plastics?
• What is broken: production systems? Waste management? Consumer habits? Global trade?
• Are plastics the biggest barrier for moving toward a circular, sustainable, and healthy life?
• What emotions are involved in wanting a plastics system change?

These are just a few topic ideas that anyone can be suggested for the discussion. We would love to hear yours!

🌱🌳 ━━━ WHAT TO KNOW ━━━🌿🍃
​This event is:
- perfect for new people to join!🎉🖐️
- unique in its debate facilitation strategy.💡🎭
- rich in its diversity of ideas and opinions. 👨‍🎓👩‍🌾🧑‍💼👮‍♀️
- a place to share or to just listen.💬💭
- a safe space for discussing whatever you want. 🗯️🚂♻️💲🐋
- right for you if you know nothing on climate change.🌎🌍🌏
- right for you if you know a lot on climate change.😵‍💫
- more about sharing thoughts than doing stuff. 🗣️🗣️👂☺️

​This event is not:
- about advocating for any specific change. 🤠🙉🙈
- a lecture or presentation on climate change. 🤓📽️
- an event full of very serious and intimidating people 😒

​🌱🌳 ━━━ ABOUT US ━━━ 🌿🍃
​Earth & Society Dialogues is a group aiming to bring together people with interest in discussing issues related to climate change and the coping of societies in the Anthropocene — the current geological age where humans are the biggest driver of geological and ecological change.

​Our events are a healthy discussion forum, open to people from all backgrounds, that aims at providing the time and space for new thoughts to emerge, and ideas to spread.

Each of our meetings has a general theme, however, the discussion is led by the participants themselves. This process starts by the participants suggesting their own topics related to the general theme. After which, people divide into small groups where they get to know each other better and dive deeper into their topics of interest.

You don’t need to be very enthusiastic about sustainability to enjoy this meeting; in fact, many of the participants aren’t. You just need to be open to listen, understand, and communicate with no judgement.

Happy to see you there!