So, I'm in Stockholm now! The reason is that I was selected a participant in a big and exciting project,
‘Challenge Europe’, focused on the European youth and climate change. Why? Well, you guess it: I'm very passionate about climate change.
I see my participation in this project as a precious opportunity to accomplish my life's highest goal: to contribute to helping human world come into harmony with the world of nature, by becoming careful and compassionate stewards for all ecosystems on the planet, including the human society itself. I hope that together in ‘Challenge Europe’ we will agree on solutions that will facilitate this vision. I'm convinced that the challenge that lies ahead of us is not about technology only, not only about money. The issue of climate change is systemic and all-encompassing. At the same time, there’s lack of ethics in the current debate and lack of political action. That’s why the solutions should be accordingly structural and system-wide, taking ethical dimension into account and building up public support for radical change of policies through political means. And so, to facilitate solutions that we are going to choose, we should stop talking only among ourselves and start talking to the rest of society. This is what I hope 'Challenge Europe' will be about. Because if we fail in communicating the necessary changes to the public and to politicians, fail to penetrate and influence mainstream institutions, we might lose a unique opportunity to save this planet as we know it.
I believe that climate change should be approached from a holistic perspective. We shouldn't strive to reduce carbon emissions at all costs: at the cost of biodiversity, at the cost of planet's ecosystems, at the cost of healthcare or human well-being and happiness in general. Quite the opposite: we can see the threat of climate disruption as a great chance to fix many things that are wrong with our society! Things that have been causing and aggravating many of the societal and environmental problems until now. Climate change comes at the cross-section of issues like indigenous people’s and women's rights, peace and conflict, global justice and intergenerational solidarity, starvation and water scarcity, energy poverty and many others. Let us not forget about these issues while we are trying to solve climate change. This urgent challenge should become our great opportunity to hurry up the transition towards a sustainable harmonic world.
Thank you for taking your time to read this.
