Michael John Gorman is Founding Director of BIOTOPIA (biotopia.net), a new museum of life sciences and environmental development in Munich, as well as Professor of Life Sciences in Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Previously Michael John founded the Science Gallery in Dublin, a university network dedicated to igniting creativity and discovery where science and art collide. In his talk he shares why empathy plays a decisive role in preventing the 6th mass extinction.