Index for Open Future NZ

An Open Future has to be built, by us, by our decisions and by our actions.

Humanity faces the greatest possible challenge. A political, technical and social revolution is happening. This process goes on, despite human efforts to control it. The ecological response of the planet to excessive human activity can be brutal. We seek to expand our prosperity, but we are probably already in an economic decline that we cannot stop.

We face a “closing future” that threatens our children with shorter lives, poverty and hardship. This was filmed at the Climate Summit in Durban 2011 (COP17).

Ten years later we've still done almost NOTHING.
So, Greta Thunberg is right. We must do better. Politicians can't or won't help. Don't blame them, they are trapped too. You and I can; we can make better personal and local choices. Do that; live lightly on the Earth.

Perhaps the source of our predicament is that we are focused on Climate Change as a problem, while in fact the key problem is Economic Overshoot, we have just committed too much of Planet Earth, to meet our human desires, not recognising that nature also needs time and space and diversity to sustain it's own health.

The problem is OVERSHOOT.

"We don't know what's going to happen.
We are all morally obliged to do what we can to protect the Earth and to protect future generations.
That's our business. Listen to the Earth, where-ever you are. Do what you have to do."

Dahl Jamail,
author of "Climate Code Red"

There is a companion site, "Open Future Health" which you can find here.