Why innovation is key to saving the climate
Karl-Heinz Land |
TEDxEhrenfeld
• September 2021
Never again will the pace of impending change be as slow as it is today - now what? Change, with all its changes, has turned on the turbo once again. Corona forced us to a standstill and at the same time acted like an accelerant on the developments and failures of the last thirty years. The virus is now relentlessly revealing the system errors of our social and economic systems.
For decades we have ignored the emerging crises: climate catastrophes, species extinction, increasing migration, waste crises, environmental destruction, growing inequality, factory farming and Dieselgate. Was such a global emergency as we are currently experiencing inevitable?
We are suddenly forced to stop. Pausing to question ourselves and our system as a whole. As brutal as the events and consequences of the virus are for us, it is still time for a fresh start. A chance to regroup, recognize the causes of our problems and fix them instead of just numbing the symptoms.
Only now, when physical gatherings are made more difficult by Covid-19, is the importance of the Internet and digitalization slowly being perceived for what they are: the infrastructure of our future prosperity.