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- Herausgeber: Forlaget Hxaro
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
'Escape Route' outlines how we can address the crises we are currently facing without being dependent on the world's power holders. 'Escape Route' establishes a codex for operating truly sustainable companies, and through them, the opportunity to accelerate the necessary transition to sustainability. It is the use of existing structures around business operations that makes it easy to get started and impossible for power holders to stop. It is a path that distributes power and opportunities for action across the world; out to you and me.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024
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In Brief
This is a proposal on how we can address the crises we are currently facing, without being dependent on the world’s power holders. The proposal suggests a codex for operating truly sustainable companies, and through them, offers the opportunity to accelerate the necessary transition to sustainability. Utilizing existing structures around business operations makes it easy to get started and impossible for those in power to obstruct. It’s a path that distributes power and opportunities for action across the world; out to you and me.
Content:
Dance
Introduction
Chapter 1: When They Dig in the Earth
Chapter 2: Let Go
The System - As We Know It
Power and Motive (Illustration)
Chapter 3: The Emergency Exit
Hxaro
The Declaration
Power and Another Motive (Illustration)
The Workforce (Illustration)
Chapter 4: Local
Chapter 5: Oases
Access to Knowledge and Ideas (Illustration)
Which Direction? (Illustration)
Chapter : Away from the Road and onto the Paths
Chapter 7: Agreement on One Thing
The Conclusion - The Hope - The Beginning
Afterword
Appendix
”If working apart, we are a force powerful enough to destabilise our planet. Surely working together, we are powerful enough to save it.”
- David Attenborough
at COP 26 (november 2021)
Dance
30 trillion cells interacting with 39 trillion bacteria in constant physical and chemical exchange, with each other and with everything in their surroundings; together, they constitute me. I do not exist without their constant cooperation, their movements, and communication; the pattern they form for a short while is me. I am embedded in the world, and the world is in me. I am a tiny part of the moment’s many carriers of eons of selected mutations, a vanishingly small part of life’s dance. This is an infinitely complex interplay that explores and unfolds the possibilities of life. Yet, my dance is poison in the cup from which life drinks.
Introduction
It all started with COP 15 in 2009 in Copenhagen. Of course, in reality, it began much earlier, but it was here that I truly realized that the world’s political elite are powerless; the climate crisis will not be addressed through political power alone, as the pressure from industrial and capital interests prevents it. So, I began to look for initiatives that could make a difference, actions that could contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions.
What can I do? What can we do? How can one raise support for larger projects? How to make a real change without it ultimately being dependent on the unattainable grace of the power holders, whether in the form of legislation or investments? All the ideas I could muster always ended up needing either one or the other, or both.
My search led me to read whatever I could find about the climate crisis, and the more I read, the clearer it became that the narrow focus on the climate crisis made the task impossible. The climate crisis is inseparably linked to the biodiversity crisis, to rising inequality, and to the behavior of capitalism on the global stage. Many others reached both insight and solution long before me: The solution is a transition to sustainability; a complete overhaul of the system we live in. In 2015, it became apparent that this insight was globally shared, as all UN member states committed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. However, at the start of 2024, progress is lacking; the UN estimates that only 15% of the goals will be achieved with the current pace and course. So, despite recognizing that we have opened the doors to a disaster, we continue into the heat.
We need to change our global system and many of the structures it consists of: the way our economy is interconnected, the way we produce, and the way we consume. Indeed, all the structures associated with our way of doing business.
These structures are difficult to change because they are controlled, supported, and protected by the concentrations of power, as these structures uphold their power. The resistance we encounter when trying to change these structures is extensive and massive, and I don’t believe we have time to engage in that battle before we accelerate the transition to sustainability. We need to change the entire system and its structures, but for now, we must use the existing structures to initiate change. This is a proposal on how to do it.
“Climate change isn’t an ‘issue’ to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message — spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions — telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us we need to evolve”
- Naomi Klein
from the book: ’This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate’ (2014)
