Sometimes it feels as if we are living in a world that is teetering on the edge.

We are on the precipice of a new decade, and challenge and change are rife in society. Political systems around the world are failing to serve their people. We are riding the wave of a fourth industrial revolution amidst a backdrop of perpetual racial and gendered violence.

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Meanwhile, recent IPCC reports declared that our planet has just twelve years to resolve the causes of climate change before Earth is no longer able to sustain human life. Understandably, anxieties concerning the welfare of our planet feel as if they are at an all-time high.

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What is the answer? Creativity. Innovation. Creation. The crises shaping our society have served to spur on so many young and impassioned individuals to seek a solution and encourage change in so many aspects of life. TEDxWarwick believes that it is this creative resolve and dedicated perseverance in the face of adversity that will aid humanity as we enter a fraught new decade.

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Creativity, and the results it inspires, will be the ultimate decider in whether our future thrives, or falls apart at the seams. Tick, tick, tick…