It’s now more than ten years ago that we casually sat with seniors scientists of different disciplines in the coffee room of our Institute of Environment Studies in Amsterdam and I asked: ‘Will humanity still be alive in 2100?’
We were impressed by the reactions. Nobody immediately said ‘of course we'll be alive’, or ‘what an unimportant question’. It was just silent. We all took it seriously. Then came the answers. Most of us agreed that we'd better not count on governments, companies and mainstream media, that the rich and powerful would manage to monopolize the diminishing natural resources, and that only they would survive.
So the next question was, would the large majority of citizens see the demise coming and organize themselves to effectively prevent global disaster. That question is now asked by more people and although citizens' actions are still drops in the ocean they are on the increase.
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