So Little Time, So Much To Do - Digby Hall Appreciates The Scale of Our Adaptation Requirement

Today’s guest though is someone I was very excited to spend some time with - Digby Hall. Digby is a renowned architect who for more than three decades has played a leading role in shaping and delivering versions of sustainability and resilient projects. More than that though, his thinking, influence and understanding of complex dynamic systems and being able to make sense and create practical actions that are necessary for adaptation is outstanding. To go with his registered architect label, He’s also a Ted Speaker, advisor, PhD scholar and entrepreneur who has helped me appreciate that adaptation isn’t just an abstract concept or something relevant only for the most at risk places and people around the world, but a notion that everything, everywhere will need to be evolved and changed to deal with a new climate reality. From the obvious like homes and coastal infrastructure, to food systems and how government procurement processes operate.

Digby is a deep thinker and pragmatic operator, blending high quality research with his own extensive experience to now be one of Australia’s - if not the world’s - most astute purveyor of the necessity of adaptation.

Alright Digby. As I think becomes immediately apparent in this conversation he has a legitimate understanding about the scope, scale and urgency of adaptation. Efforts to decarbonise haven’t progressed as they’ve needed to and a result we all have an enormous amount to do in making the physical, cultural, social, political and economic changes required to avoid the very worst of the losses and damages that are now locked in from a changing climate.

The March newsletter is going to be on the theme of choices. And don’t we have some to make at this moment. To fight, to freeze or to fly. This conversation with Digby - and the choices regarding adaptation - reminded me of one of my favourite quotes from Jerzy Gregorek: hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

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