Spoke at a Deans' Roundtable on the Sustainable Development Goals, in Paris, on 11 December 2017
"Caught up in the day-to-day preoccupations of fast-paced and technologically-mediated modern life, even the most enlightened and conscientious among us can easily forget or even come to ignore how precarious our conditions of living really are and that the problems that seem always to be somewhere else and someone else’s are really very much our problems too. Some of us deal with these problems in the safety of abstract ideas and feel-good platitudes. Some of us become nihil