{"id":738,"date":"2023-07-31T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/?p=738"},"modified":"2023-07-31T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:08:01","slug":"future-what-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/future-what-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Future &#8211; what future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Herbert Girardet &#8211; 31st July 2023 | Creative Commons 4.0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_739\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-739\" class=\"wp-image-739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/future-or-not.jpg\" alt=\"The future will be green or not at all\" width=\"400\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/future-or-not.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/future-or-not-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/future-or-not-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/future-or-not-847x519.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Garry Knight \/ Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The first ever \u2018summit of the future\u2019 will be staged by the United Nations next year. It might be our last chance.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first ever \u2018summit of the future\u2019 will be staged by the United Nations in September 2024. This brings to mind Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s insightful comment: <strong>&#8222;<\/strong>The future depends on what you do today.&#8220;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The UN website calls for a summit &#8222;to forge a new global consensus on multilateral solutions to <a href=\"https:\/\/33CC147C-8605-4591-B771-43ECADF8B451#_edn1\">current and future problems<\/a>.&#8220; The summit is a most timely initiative as we face unprecedented challenges, both in their globality and in their vast time horizon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the final part in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2022\/aug\/19\/amazonia-ablaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>our Megamorphsis series<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As never before, our decisions are affecting not just the next century or two, but millennial or even geological time spans. How can we protect the future from the unprecedented pressures of the here and now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>continue reading:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2023\/jul\/31\/future-what-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2023\/jul\/31\/future-what-future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Author Herbert Girardet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Professor Herbert Girardet&nbsp;is a co-founder of the World Future Council, and a member of The Club of Rome. His most recent book is&nbsp;<em>Creating Regenerative Cities<\/em>&nbsp;(Routledge). Professor Girardet&nbsp;is also a trustee at the Resurgence Trust, which owns and publishes&nbsp;<em>The Ecologist<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Man k\u00f6nnte das so sehen, dass mein Artikel &#8222;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/generationenverantwortung-in-der-klimakrise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Generationenverantwortung in der Klimakrise<\/a>&#8220; die Verantwortung der Vers\u00e4umnisse meiner Generation darstellt, wobei bewusst am Ende mit der Club of Rome Studie von 2022 ein Hoffnungszeichen in die Zukunft gesetzt wird. Daran schliesst dann Herberts Beitrag an, der sich an den 2024 stattfindenden UNO-Summit for Future richtet. Herbert Girardet ist ein&nbsp; enger Studienkollege von mir aus T\u00fcbinger Tagen (1962-1963), Mitgr\u00fcnder des World Future Council und Mitglied des Club of Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Herbert Girardet &#8211; 31st July 2023 | Creative Commons 4.0 The first ever \u2018summit of the future\u2019 will be staged by the United Nations next year. It might be our last chance. The first ever \u2018summit of the future\u2019 will be staged by the United Nations in September 2024. This brings to mind Mahatma &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/future-what-future\/\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,207,237],"tags":[251,76,265],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","category-jugend-und-klimakrise","category-youth-and-climate-crisis","tag-climate-protection","tag-klimawandel","tag-youth","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartwig-berger.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}