Ceci Silvestri is a marine biologist and policy advisor for the Italian ministry of the environment. She has extensive experience in negotiating and implementing international pollution monitoring and control programs across the Mediterranean sea, including the sensitive topics of fisheries and marine litter.
In this episode we talk about global and local perspectives while evaluating the state of the world, alarmism as a strategy to sensibilize population about the environment and the paradox of high standards to improve environmental quality
I really enjoyed talking to Ceci and I hope you will enjoy the conversation too
Key take aways
Working with research and governance allowed me to fill in gaps in knowledge and propose action to policy makers
Globally, human life has improved, but at the cost of the environment. Locally, our perception is worsening, because our minds cannot metabolize fast changes
Politicians benefit from pessimism, because any mediocre improvment is celebrated
exaggerating problems to sensibilize the population is dangerous, because the in the absence of means to act, they abandon the cause.
We still have a long way to go on women's rights. 40 million people are under slave conditions in the world and they are almost all women.
We lack good indicators to measure if countries are moving forward towards the goals in strick and broader contexts.
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Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cecilia-Silvestri
