As Individual citizens, – voters, as watchdogs, and as consumers – we have the simple yet effective power to make our voices heard. What each of us does, and how we do it, has a huge ripple effect on our ecosystems, and on the pace of corporate and government action. We are responsible for holding business, governments, and others accountable and to support their efforts when they get it right. How can we do that?
National and local government officials can open new doors by incentivizing their citizens, businesses, and institutions to create and innovate. They can create a fair global economic system to implement these innovations and changes without giving up their role to advance and protect the public’s interests in this transition.
Like other economic revolutions, inventors, innovators, businesses, and investors are the most likely to drive significant change. It is time for these change agents to step it up. It is also up to us to require that they create value both for themselves and for society as they drive green innovation.
“Nature around the world is declining at a rate unprecedented in millions of years”
Dom Wilmar Santin with a video message on this Earth Day 2022, from the Brazilian Amazon, tells us that “Investing in our Planet means investing in the Education of our children with a focus on preservation [of nature] and re-educating adults”.
He also reminds us with concern that:
“the Amazon constitutes a unique “garden” of energy and biodiversity on planet Earth. However, the Amazon rainforest is threatened by deforestation, fires, global climate change and extreme weather events. We are pushing the Amazon to its “tipping point”… causing the death of the rainforest …. If we pass the tipping point, the largest rainforest on Earth could become, at best, a dry grassland.”
Dom Wilmar invites us all to:
“expand the interconnectedness of biodiversity and climate change as vital to address the twin crises. We must address one and the other, as climate change is a driver of biodiversity collapse and biodiversity collapse accelerates the climate crisis”.
