Why a Living Futures newsletter?
Optimism is no-nonsense. Sound evidence, shared knowledge, and outcome-focused collaboration, liberate us to make the best possible world a reality. What, then, stands in the way of our getting it right?
Information access is at all-time highs, but information inequality is putting human rights and dignity—and democratic systems—at risk.
Disinformation threatens to block most people’s access to routine science-based understanding of reality, and that prevents best-case problem solving and makes all of us less secure.
Our industrial civilization is bursting through critical planetary boundaries, putting natural systems at risk, and undermining the viability of the very world we work every day to build.
The high-stakes projects of COVID recovery, climate resilience, and nature-positive innovation, mean decisions of consequence will be made in this decisive decade that will affect the livability of our societies for generations to come.
As we wrote in the founding report on Principles for Reinventing Prosperity:
“Adaptive, inclusive, resilient prosperity is within reach, if we work to eliminate critical system failures.”
Living Futures will be a window onto the shifting sands, emerging ideas, and transformational tools we must use to reach that better way forward.
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About the Author
Joseph Robertson is:
Executive Director of Citizens’ Climate International
Senior Advisor, Sustainable Finance for the EAT Foundation, supporting the Good Food Finance Network
Chief strategist for the Climate Value Exchange and for Resilience Intel, an initiative to shift all finance to climate-smart priorities
A member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition Advisory Group
Founder of Geoversiv and Liberate Data, and a core contributor to the Earth Intelligence podcast
From May 2013 through December 2018, he published “The Note”—a monthly essay on sustainable economics and open civics. The Note now continues here as the Living Futures newsletter.
