Ideas in Motion
GIG founder Geraldine de Bastion and Annemarie Botzki, Co-Founder/CEO at Rocsun, write about innovations, open technologies and ideas like a climate solutions network as part of their reflections for the "Extinction Rebellion" movement that is currently engaged in their International Rebellion in more than 60 cities across the globe.
Emission: net zero. That means a complete change of our way of life.
And yet: Nothing less than that was decided in 2015 by the Paris Climate Conference.
But: Who will build this world, a world without emissions? When will we begin? And where is the plan how to reach this survival goal as quicky and fairly as possible?
Courageous revisions of the global energy and economic system are necessary. Society‘s goal can no longer merely be growth and profit maximization, but must rather be ecological and social justice and stable living conditions.
Radical as it may seem, this is not the first time a society has had to readjust. What helped during such social...