FOR OUR CHILDREN
Back in 2020 there was still hope for a moderate 1.5 degree Celsius temperature increase – in mid-2026 we are already at 1.5 degrees! Current predictions point towards a 2.5 degree warming this century.
Climate change of 2.0 C will bring unprecedented global suffering to many and 3.0+ C of warming has unimaginable consequences for all living beings. The scientific evidence is clear.
Now is the time for every single one of us to act – to avoid suffering and pain for our children and future generations. We collectively need to do our part!
The minusfiftypercent recipe:
Reduce all your fossil-fuel powered, wasteful, unsustainable, polluting and socially damaging activities by fifty percent. Small or big, start today!
minusfiftypercent it!
“Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddled while the planet burned?”
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres @ UN climate change conference (COP25) in Madrid, Dec 2nd, 2019: LINK
Otto Scharmer (Presencing Institute @ MIT) argues that we are living in a time shaped by rupture (not: transition), fracture (not: fragmentation), and absencing (not: presencing). We are experiencing not a gradual change but a tear, not a scattering but a breaking.
He proposes that we need to cultivate the Social Soil, i.e. the quality of our relationships and our awareness. Our social systems – the things ‘above the ground’, institutions, policies, and practical results are a function of the social soil. As in agriculture, the quality of everything that is growing above the ground, including the quality of the harvest, is a function of the quality of the soil.
Holding the Gaze Steady, Otto Scharmer, Medium, March 24, 2026
Let’s all strive for an:
Open Mind – Curiosity
Open Heart – Compassion
Open Will – Courage
The Operating Logic of Absencing, and of Presencing (Source: Scharmer & Kaufer, 2025)
Each global citizen has a per capita consumption emissions target of 2.1 tons of CO2 by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5°C. The 2024 world average was 4.9 tons CO2/capita.
