Dealing with an emergency requires a change of priorities, and focusing on what needs to be done to reduce the risk/damage caused by the emergency. As long as our society priorities GDP growth it will never adequately deal with the climate crisis, and certainly not the more basic overshoot crisis. Changing such a deeply held priority on a global scale has never been done.
This is so absolutely true. In fact it is THE reason I'm running for U.S. President - to declare an overshoot emergency and launch the very type of all-hands-on-deck project Matt Orsagh describes. We all need to wake up every morning with a mission - to conserve energy, to curb our overconsumption, to shrink our footprint and live as lightly on the planet as possible. Thanks to Matt for writing about this.
Dealing with an emergency requires a change of priorities, and focusing on what needs to be done to reduce the risk/damage caused by the emergency. As long as our society priorities GDP growth it will never adequately deal with the climate crisis, and certainly not the more basic overshoot crisis. Changing such a deeply held priority on a global scale has never been done.
This is so absolutely true. In fact it is THE reason I'm running for U.S. President - to declare an overshoot emergency and launch the very type of all-hands-on-deck project Matt Orsagh describes. We all need to wake up every morning with a mission - to conserve energy, to curb our overconsumption, to shrink our footprint and live as lightly on the planet as possible. Thanks to Matt for writing about this.