Read Greta Thunberg’s Vogue Scandinavia cover interview: Greta on activism, Trump and becoming the voice of a generation

Production of meat worldwide causes twice the pollution of production of plant-based foods, a major new study has found

The only way to really address the climate crisis is through politics, policymakers and legislation.

Dramatic reductions in emissions would help prevent the world from drastically exceeding 1.5°C of global warming, but even the biggest countries are falling short.

“The upshot is that we have more confidence about where climate change is poised to take us and more certainty about our ability to influence that future through actions on greenhouse gas emissions.”

“history strongly refutes the notion that there’s any necessary link between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions.”

“Is physically impossible for all nations to consume and pollute at the level of the SDG top performers without destroying our planet’s biosphere.”

Technology disruptions already underway in the energy, transportation, and food sectors have extraordinary implications for climate change. These three disruptions alone driven by just six technologies can directly eliminate over 90% of net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide within 15 years.

👍 Very good stuff - Must Read! “This is the first of a three-part essay that shares how my thinking evolved from evangelizing ‘sustainable investing’ for the world’s largest investment firm to decrying it as a dangerous placebo…”

Urban farming in Singapore aims to produce as much food as possible, but its sustainability remains to be seen.

TEDMonterey | July 2021. Read The Ministry of The Future, NOW:)

“Today in the US, the CEO-to-worker pay gap stands at a staggering 351 to one, an unacceptable increase from 15 to one in 1965. In other words, the average CEO makes nearly nine times what the average person will earn over a lifetime in just one year.”

“These two crises demonstrate the woeful inadequacy of efforts to address the problematic aspects of globalization. The so-called international community has again shown itself to be anything but a community. ”

“And, of course, such people were persecuted for that very dangerous idea, because those at the top have always understood what a more hopeful view of human nature means for them. It means we won’t need them any more. Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act.”

“What if humanity’s capacity to cooperate has been undone by the very technology we thought would bring us all together?”

“THE SPEEDY development of covid-19 vaccines speaks to the best of humanity’s qualities: resilience, ingenuity and the ability to jointly overcome problems. Their distribution, however, reflects less well on the species”

“Purpose is now firmly established as the No. 1 factor in driving business growth.”

“We are always guided by our firm’s purpose: to build trust in society and solve important problems.”

“Purpose is not a mere tagline or marketing campaign; it is a company’s fundamental reason for being—what it does every day to create value for its stakeholders.”

“What if it’s also making us less empathetic, less prone to ethical action? What if it’s degrading our capacity for moral attention — the capacity to notice the morally salient features of a given situation so that we can respond appropriately?”

“Alan Turing, the innovator behind the invention of the computer, had designated that an AI could be said to have passed the humanity test once it could successfully convince a human it was interacting with that it, too, was a fellow human.”

“Metaverses are perhaps the clearest admission yet that the future of tech doesn’t lie just in VR or AR, but in a mix of many devices accessing a shared online world, which may be more immersive and 3D than the internet you’re currently using to read this story.”

“A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers.”

“What struck me as funny for Ministry for the Future was the idea that in order to keep their money stable, they would have to save the world, and that still strikes me as funny, and not at all implausible” Lewis Gordon on thenation.com

It’s hard for us to fathom exponential change – but our inability to do so could tear apart businesses, economies and the fabric of society… New book by Azeem Azhar : ‘Exponential’

EuroSkills 2021 is accompanied by a first-class specialist programme. Various regional, national and European event formats – conferences, meetings, seminars, sessions, lectures and partner programme contributions – will illuminate the core topic “FUTURE OF SKILLS” from different perspectives.

This is the first talk on what I now call ‘TheDDR’ (German fans will understand the pun): Digitization, Decarbonisation and Reformation (still titled as Democratisation in this keynote).

In this film, Futurist Gerd Leonhard speaks about why we are at such a crucial moment in human history, why our current economic story and logic won’t work in the future, and why we need to move on from a focus on profit and growth to a focus on people, planet, purpose and prosperity. He then describes what a Good Future could actually look like, and depicts 5 scenarios in food, energy, education, healthcare and work. Then, he talks about what leaders in business and politics can do to create a Good Future, suggesting 4 action items, followed by a segment on what individuals can do. The film wraps up with this key message: The good future is entirely possible and it’s our choice. The only question is: Are you going to be part of it?

This is a special excerpt from the Future-Ready Executive Program, November 2020see https://www.futuristgerd.com/expertise/the-future-proof-executive/ The d…

In this short video I explain how I became a futurist, morphing from a musician and producer to internet entrepreneur to author, keynote speaker and futurist…

Think:Act magazine talks to Gerd and others about black swan events, how to spot and prepare for them.