No Hope Without Courage: Cindy Forde on Education

The system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do: extract the maximum for the fewest. That is why Cindy Forde, founder of Planetari and former Managing Director of the Blue Marine Foundation, moved from boardrooms to classrooms. Her case for Earth-led education is simple: the same maths, science and history, taught so that children use them to steward the planet. She explains why a pizza and an orangutan can teach systems thinking, why children in Kenya or Borneo often understand climate better than children in London, and why most corporate sustainability is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Now co-founding a Centre for Systemic Change at Cambridge, she closes with one line: there is no hope without the courage to change. Share it with a teacher, a parent or a leader who needs it.