Saved By the Tree Frog

ECONOMY VERSUS ECOLOGY?
How nature is helping us save the climate, biodiversity
and our economy 13
From landfill to circular vision 15
Lessons from the pandemic 19
From Paris to your own backyard 21

Chapter 1 NO BUSINESS ON A DEAD PLANET
The hard truth about economics, nature and society,
and the unique opportunity of Earthshot thinking 25
Why do we think the way we do about nature? 25
Sowing seeds of professional doubt 29
Blundering with nature 31
There are (too) many of us 32
We build and eat away 33
We massively overlook climate change 35
We are emitting too much 36
We are tearing down biodiversity 37
We live by the delusion of the day 38
It’s the economy, stupid 40
It’s the environment, stupid 41
The dream we have never dreamt before 43
Natural disasters are climate disasters 43
Lessons to be learned from the COVID pandemic 45
Do we put on glasses with black, grey or pink lenses? 46
Nine planetary boundaries 47
From Moonshot to Earthshot 50
A giant leap towards a healthy world 50
Nature as the main healer 55
Leadership in times of crisis 59
COVID as the green flag for Earthshot 66

Chapter 2 BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE SOLUTIONS
What exactly are we talking about? 71
Biodiversity, where everything is connected
to everything else 73
Biodiversity as the silent foundation of our existence 74
How everything in nature is related to everything else 79
Pigeonholing is not a solution 82
Natural resilience outside the boxes 86
Taking natural resilience into account 89
Climate, the biggest task 91
The climate concerns us all 91
The uncomfortable truth about greenhouse gases 93
World leaders as climate protectors 99
Citizens as climate protectors 103
A green revolution: acting beyond the boxes 106
Agriculture, as the key agent of change 109
Pigeonholing agriculture 109
Agricultural alarm bells 111
Far too large carbon footprint 112
Far too much nitrogen 113
Far too much water needed 114
Far too many farm animals 114
Far too much meat consumption 115
Ashoka, Everyone a Changemaker 119
A pact for open space 119
The answers of organic farming 120
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Chapter 3 TOWARDS A DIFFERENT ECONOMIC MODEL