IF WE WANT TO SAVE THE PLANET, DON'T LOOK UP

January 14, 2022

It’s not as much an idea as it is a resolution: with the new year, we must save the planet. Or at least start doing so. From the very beginning, Competere has strived to make this great illusion into a realistic and achievable objective. From dreams of a greener tomorrow and of a more equal world, to the transformations of the labor market, industrial automation, and a shifting geopolitical axe toward the Pacific Ocean. These and other challenges have the potential of radically affecting some or all of our day-to-day life. And the direction in which they are headed is clear. Trying to change their course or halting it completely means adopting a stance that is ahistorical and – to put it simply – Trumpian. On the opposite end, there is a world vision that is just as ideological and extremist that – put just as simply – can be chalked up to Greta Thumberg. The only thing playing in favor of the latter, although it may be just as deceptive and aggressive, is that it does not try to deny the course of history.