Today, Eco-Age‘s North Star lies on Naomi Klein’s reminder that we have a huge opportunity to implement a “Marshall plan” for the future of our society – a major operating system upgrade, a plan to roll up our sleeves and actually get the job done”.
“Getting the job done” is why this time I hid myself away on our working family farm, where my brothers produce organic crops for the local towns. Honestly it felt more productive to be part of the harvest than part of what Greta memorably branded, ‘the blah blah blah’.
As the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, put it at COP26, “how many times are we going to say the same thing over and over and over? We can’t do that anymore. How many leaders have to come to this podium to tell the same things? What is the relevance of an international community that only comes together and doesn’t listen to each other? That only talks and will not talk to each other?”. We are still waiting for answers to her illuminating questions.