Science Summit at United Nations General Assembly 77 (UNGA77)

In a time of shrinking resources and shifting climate, two noted field researchers and two celebrated poets ask:  In a time of high stakes, big goals, and many losses, how can science and poetry help us hold wonder and grief simultaneously?    How does conversation between artists and scientists nourish us all?  How do disparate ways we approach, research, and report on climate change affect one another? How does our work allow others to see, access, hear and feel the impact of climate change on one another and on the world around us? Together, we four discuss how our daily work practices build forms of attention and knowledge for confronting crises. How can artists work alongside scientists to interpret this moment?   How can art offer refuge for scientists? How can direct conversations between artists and scientists more broadly build models for common understanding?  Finally: what do poets and scientists have in common? How is our work similar? And how— in the face of high stakes for the planet—  might each discipline productively renew the other?