 Hello, my name is Edward Simpson and I'm a Professor in Anthropology at SUAS. I'm also one of the conveners of our MA program Global Futures and Sustainability. The thematic focus is climate and sustainability. But throughout the program runs an emphasis on communication and speaking, talking, presenting Because we believe that students who graduate from SUAS should be well equipped to talk about what they've learned. Not simply to internalise academic debate, but to take it out into the world to make it part of your public persona. An anthropological approach addresses the underlying ideas and assumptions. What orients and structures knowledge politics? How do different points of view come into play? This program encourages you to ask, well what about the social? What about the potential for revolution? How about alternative forms of politics? What is the relationship between the future and human ideas of progress, destiny and utopias? We hope that this program equips you to deal with some of the moral and ethical issues. We will encourage you to ask difficult questions, not only of the literature, but also of yourselves. What do you think of the future? What hidden geographies and assumptions and hierarchies do you carry into your own thinking?