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September 19 · Issue #61 · View online
These are the best links and must-reads aggregated by Gerd Leonhard, Futurist & Humanist, Keynote Speaker, Author of 'Technology vs Humanity', Film-Maker (The Good Future) and CEO of The Futures Agency in Zürich / Switzerland.
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Hi everyone, here are my best links and finds from the past few weeks. Sorry for the rather quiet period during the summer but it’s been very busy around here with the first real-life gigs happening again ( 👉see this special newsletter-subscribers-only video of my keynote at IAAMobility on Sept 9 🤖) and a ton of online speaking gigs, and of course some nice family vacation time in-between, as well. Thanks for staying connected and keep up the hope in these difficult times! The Future is Good - we just need to make the right choices, today. Zurich / Switzerland
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Vogue Scandinavia - Read Greta Thunberg's Vogue Scandinavia cover interview: Greta on activism, Trump and becoming the voice of a generation
Read Greta Thunberg’s Vogue Scandinavia cover interview: Greta on activism, Trump and becoming the voice of a generation
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Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds | Meat industry | The Guardian
Production of meat worldwide causes twice the pollution of production of plant-based foods, a major new study has found
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Opinion | Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do (NYT)
The only way to really address the climate crisis is through politics, policymakers and legislation.
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"Nothing is moving": Only one country in the world has submitted plans that will mitigate climate change by 2030, watchdog finds - CBS News
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.
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The IPCC climate change report makes it hard to feel optimistic - Axios
“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.”
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Opinion | The Bad Economics of Fossil Fuel Defenders - The New York Times
“history strongly refutes the notion that there’s any necessary link between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions.”
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The World’s Sustainable Development Goals Aren’t Sustainable at All
“Is physically impossible for all nations to consume and pollute at the level of the SDG top performers without destroying our planet’s biosphere.”
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Great resource: Climate Implications — RethinkX
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.
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💡 Made me think! The Secret Diary of a ‘Sustainable Investor’ by Tariq Fancy | Aug, 2021 | Medium
👍 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…”
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Three ways Singapore is designing urban farms to create urban food security
Urban farming in Singapore aims to produce as much food as possible, but its sustainability remains to be seen.
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👍👍 Kim Stanley Robinson: Remembering climate change ... a message from the year 2071 | TED Talk
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When it comes to climate change and the nature crisis, Europe can do a lot.
But we cannot do it alone. Every country has a responsibility!
Europe is ready to do more. We expect our partners to step up too, on the road to @.
https://t.co/Ypxe8BAnHj
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Why Covid-19 is a Test Run for Climate Change: A Carbon Tax and Other Unthinkable Green Solutions
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American CEOs make 351 times more than workers. In 1965 it was 15 to one | Indigo Olivier | The Guardian
“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.”
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Globalization Strikes Back | by Richard Haass - Project Syndicate
“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. ”
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Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act: Rutger Bregman - The Hindu
“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.”
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What if Humans Just Can’t Get Along Anymore? - The New York Times
“What if humanity’s capacity to cooperate has been undone by the very technology we thought would bring us all together?”
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"Vaccine Apartheid": Unfair Distribution Hampers Global Vaccination Drive - DER SPIEGEL
“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”
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CEO Purpose Report | Brandpie
“Purpose is now firmly established as the No. 1 factor in driving business growth.”
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Our World Is Changing, But Building Trust is Timeless: How PwC is Meeting the Future Today
“We are always guided by our firm’s purpose: to build trust in society and solve important problems.”
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Embracing Worth Beyond Wealth: Who Is Worthy Now? - Worth
“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.”
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"...In the future we're going to need to think wider, to think beyond profit and growth..."
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It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.
“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?”
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AI will change the study of psychology - The Mail & Guardian
“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.”
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Microsoft, Facebook and everyone else are building the metaverse. Will you want to live there? - CNET
“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.”
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Why the ‘metaverse’ will prove to be more than a buzzword https://t.co/MEDPsKsRTg imho is a lot better at “datafying” then unifying anything ;(
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A.I. Can Now Write Its Own Computer Code. That’s Good News for Humans? Says The New York Times
“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.”
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☔️ The Ministry for the Future: A Novel: Robinson, Kim Stanley
“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
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The Exponential Age will transform economics forever | WIRED UK
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’
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EuroSkills 2021 Graz 2021 Live on Stage:::)
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.
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💡ALU FUTUREFEST Keynote. Africa: Digitisation, Decarbonisation, Democratization
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).
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#Futurist Gerd Leonhard Keynote 'Brave New World' at Social Innovations Forum 2021 Moscow (ENGLISH)
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The Good Future Film: Futurist Gerd Leonhard (English subtitles). Released July 20, 2021 on Vimeo
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🤟The Good Future Film on Vimeo: Download all sub-titled versions here!
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?
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Special release! From Efficiency to Resilience - Building Future-Ready Organizations: Gerd Leonhard
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How did I become a futurist - what does that actually mean?
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…
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Think: Roland Berger Act Magazine “The Unknown” A brief history of predicting the unpredictable
Think:Act magazine talks to Gerd and others about black swan events, how to spot and prepare for them.
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Thanks for reading and please feel free to ping me anytime (just hit reply or use this contact form). Cheers from Zurich! PS: Would you agree on this WFH analysis 😎
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