The key to the survival of the planet? A group of countries never seen before.

Human civilization is faced with unprecedented challenges caused by a mixture of economic, demographic and climate-related factors. We would be misguided to imagine that “orthodox” solutions cautiously and slowly applied could actually work. It won`t happen. They will yield no results or if they do, it will be too late. What is required is a complete paradigm shift to replace the old scaled-up solutions. The changes are exponential and so should the impact of solutions be…not linear… This requires vision, courage and an ability to stand up to the sarcastic sneers of those around us. An intense effort to make the public understand and assuming the political price wouldn`t go amiss. “Theory says otherwise”, “it`s silly” or “it has never been done before” are no longer sufficiently strong arguments in a case against an extra-ordinary approach.