The Leadership Able To Bring About a “Just Transition”

“We need to face the fact that the existing system will not choose a just, sustainable, decolonial, degrowth economics, despite our best efforts to encourage it. This system consolidates vast wealth and power in the hands of those with the least interest in making real change… A just transition could be led by Global South countries rising up and throwing off the yokes of neo-colonialism, controlling their own resources and refusing to pay debts… that moment is happening – and it is time we paid attention. Might we play our parts in helping colonialist consumerism have a good death and build what might be able to replace it?… These times call for humility, for apology for our complicity, for finding our way back into life and our global human family.”