Dear Journalist,
You may have heard Sir David Attenborough’s warning at a UN Climate Conference: “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon”.
Environmental events and humanity’s behavior around the world are telling us that the reality of the human condition is alarming. The convergence of multiple flaws in the human systems project hopelessness for our future. The 8 billion reproductive human population places a near-infinite demand on the finite resources of Earth, heating the planet and causing climate change; extractive techno-industrial, capitalist-consumerist military-industrial complex is spewing non-biodegradable and toxic waste poisoning mountains, rivers and oceans while depleting Earth’s life-support capacity. All along democracy in the US is on a slide toward fascism.
The three nuclear-armed superpowers are in a deadly competition for the diminishing resources; global socioeconomic stress is rising to dangerous levels; under such conditions, somewhere a stressed and twitchy finger sooner or later will push the nuclear button. In a nuclear holocaust of mutually assured destruction the lucky ones will die instantly, most will die a slow and horrible death in a radiation poisoned world.
Unlike undisturbed nature, our world is heading toward collapse and extinction without a self-correcting mechanism. If humanity is to avoid "armageddon", the correction must be initiated by a few fast moving brave and heroic individuals pioneering the way to build a better bridge to a peaceful and sustainable future before the window of opportunity closes forever.
Who will be those brave and heroic individuals? Reading this challenge, you are in the best position to decide. Your action guide is the book Dear Billionaire.