Tackling climate risk is an extraordinary political opportunity.
Beyond the urgency of climate change, which is now well established, working politically on climate risk is an extraordinary opportunity. The ecological challenge, in addition to being ethical, is above all strategic. There is an overall reconversion of our cultural, economic and social system at stake: a real reconversion with a “taste” of revolution. Of course, the ecological challenge must go hand in hand with the digital challenge, another pillar of post-pandemic recovery.
Our culture of the natural environment must change because we are part of it. By taking care of the environment, first of all respecting it and repositioning our limits within the limits of nature (resources, such as water, are not infinite), we take care of ourselves, of our own life, of our own survival. Ecology is part of the larger process of integral ecology.
Thanks to ecological reconversion, our economies are radically changing. There are many investments for the circular economy and for sustainability. All this, accompanied by digital transformation, if it will bring new productions and new works at the same time it will put in crisis activities with a no longer possible environmental impact. The ruling classes, then, will have to ask themselves the question of how to protect those social classes that will be affected by the massive, and necessary, process of reconversion.
On this point, the economic and the social meet: and it must be a meeting that lays the foundations for new futures, that includes and does not exclude, that cooperates as well as competes, that truly lays the foundations for a “glocal” vision of history, participatory and sustainable.
We work to discover the emerging opportunities, the other side of the present risk.
