Reality is here

We face multiple, interconnected crises: climate change, energy descent, economic instability, food and water insecurity, public health pressures, and democratic strain. Without a shared understanding of this reality, meaningful action is impossible.

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An Interruption to Normal Programming

The Reality of Everything is a movement to amplify awareness about the multiple, interconnected crises that are shaping our world, and how we can mobilise collective action to respond.

On 26 June 2026, we brought together Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading experts to lay out these realities and to help build the foundations for an informed, collective response.

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Human ingenuity is boundless, but no amount of ingenuity will make a finite planet infinite.

Dr Catherine Knight

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Economist Kenneth Boulding

We have an economic system that is unravelling the web of life it depends on by subsidising pollution, rewarding short-term extraction and discounting the future.

Professor Nathalie Seddon

Without a healthy biosphere, there is no stable economy.