The Climate Delusion Week
September 29th, many neighbourhoods of New York City are flooded. A clear metaphor for our inaction — one week after Climate Week in the exact same city.
We are Friday night and it is less than a week ago that I came back home after attending Climate Week NYC. For my first time at the event after boycotting conferences for more than 5 years, I got convinced to get there to spearhead the message of my recent book The Regenerative Enterprise — encouraging world leaders to be in service to life on Earth.
I spent ten days attending meetings, conferences, and talks that felt full of words and terribly empty of actions. From the UN headquarters to conference halls and networking events, the same feeling kept coming back to me: empty words in an era calling for urgent action.
Many of the ‘leaders’ taking on the stages are either corporates paying their tickets to participate in the show or individuals driven by the objective of feeling good about themselves doing ‘good for the world’. Let’s be clear, what we do today is not to feel good about ourselves but to deliver on the responsibility that has been given to us to be guardians of life in a world falling apart.
Many were the individuals attending the event to ‘celebrate’. How can we even think of celebrating the race we are losing against climate change and rising inequalities?
