Why Science Matters More Than Ever Season 1 - Episode 3

Holger Hoff - Environmental Scientist Adrienne Gret-Regamey - Urban Systems Professor

Lasting change emerges when knowledge, emotion, and local experience are treated as equally vital forms of intelligence.

In a time when we can measure almost everything yet still hesitate to act, this episode explores what climate implications mean for different landscapes and communities. David Bresch from ETH Zurich in dialogue with urban landscape planner Adrienne Gret-Regamey and planetary boundaries scholar Holger Hoff. Together they address how retreating glaciers, new lakes and shifting mountain economies are opportunities for new cultural landscapes.

This episode challenges the assumption that more data will lead to different choices and reframes adaptation as a practice of empowerment, shared vocabulary, and attention to who actually holds the power to change land use. It reveals that the real work lies in linking quantitative insight with lived experience, local dialect, and the courage to keep going even when early efforts fail.

We invite you to see your own region as a place with diverse voices that shape practical, place based responses and honor planetary limits.

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Credits: Host: David Bresch - Professor for Weather and Climate Risks Video and Audio: Newsroom Producer: Kinny Tran-Marazza Executive Director: Jonelle Simunich

Recorded in 2021