{"id":296217,"date":"2025-05-25T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/in-age-of-extinction-we-need-your-creativity\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T00:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:05:49","slug":"in-age-of-extinction-we-need-your-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/25\/in-age-of-extinction-we-need-your-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"In age of extinction, \u2018we need your creativity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">\u201c<em>Don&#8217;t<\/em> chase your dreams.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">It\u2019s unconventional advice for a commencement address \u2014 but these are unconventional times for new college graduates, Conservation International CEO M. Sanjayan told graduates of the College of William &amp; Mary in Williamsburg, Va.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"width: 610px; height: 375px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\">\n<p><iframe title=\"M. Sanjayan Sc.D. \u201925 | William &amp; Mary 2025 Commencement Speaker\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPlqalQdBzg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit; color: inherit\">Sanjayan had been chosen to be the commencement speaker as part of the university\u2019s \u201cYear of the Environment,\u201d during which William &amp; Mary is renewing commitments to protect and restore nature, including launching a new coastal and marine sciences undergraduate degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">\u201cWe need your creativity, we need your skills, we need your decency, we need your commitment to healing our planet,\u201d Sanjayan said. \u201cIncome inequality rivals the time of kings. Climate change today imposes a deadline on civilization that no amount of magical thinking will erase; physics simply won&#8217;t allow it. It is understandable for you to be anxious about your future. The thrill of freedom must be now tempered with responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">\u201cMy best advice is this: Leave your dreams in your bed. Don&#8217;t chase your dreams. Write your story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\"\/><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-transform: inherit; word-spacing: normal; white-space: inherit\">Watch the full address <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/UBqo0LPmE8E?si=dp452-U5deaG96xC&amp;t=5713\" target=\"_blank\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Max Marcovitch is a senior writer at Conservation International. Want to read more stories like this? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/act\/subscribe\">Sign up for email updates<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/act\">please consider supporting our critical work<\/a>.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/blog\/in-age-of-extinction-we-need-your-creativity\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t chase your dreams.\u201d It\u2019s unconventional advice for a commencement address \u2014 but these are unconventional times for new college graduates, Conservation International CEO M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}