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Climate needs a rebrand, and whats driving change is surprising
Date:
Fri, 16 May 2025 14:03:49 +0000
Description:
Were not just managing one crisis. Were standing on the threshold of
something bigger, a chance to rethink how we live, work, and care for each
other.
FULL STORY
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Were living through a moment of massive, accelerating problems. Social,
political, and economic upheaval is reshaping how we live, how we think, and
how we spend. These issues are more interconnected than we realize, and we
are only scratching the surface of how deeply intertwined these problems are.
We cant keep solving the surface. We have to go deeper
There is an opportunity to not just look at the problem, but to go deeper
into the causation and correlation of these issues as one system. From the
chemicals in our water to the food on our plates and the air we breathe, what
once seemed like separate issues are revealing themselves as symptoms of
something bigger. Infertility. Obesity. Chronic disease. Fragile supply
chains. Food insecurity. These arent isolated problems. Theyre outcomes of
larger, systemic breakdowns.
Too often, we treat symptoms while ignoring the root. The true drivers such
as chemical exposure, over-processed supply chains, degraded ecosystems and
outdated infrastructure remain largely absent from mainstream conversations.
But theyre driving the cascade of issues we face today.
Systems issue
And weve barely begun to unpack the scale. Consider these stats and the
downstream consequences:
- More than half of all couples could be infertile in 20-30 years because of
the chemicals in our environment that were coming into contact with daily.
- 75% of the worlds food comes from just 12 plants and 5 animals.
- 90% of crop varieties have disappeared as 70% of U.S. farmland has been
converted to monocropping.
- Over 45% of U.S. tap water contains at least one PFAS chemical, linked to
cancer, infertility, and immune disruption.
- Microplastics have been found in human blood, placentas, and across soil
systems.
- Since 1970, wild animal populations have dropped by more than 70%, today,
just 4% of land mammals are wild.
- Semiconductor manufacturing, central to the AI boom, is a growing source of
toxic chemical waste.
More than half of all couples could face infertility within the next 20-30
years due to environmental toxins. These trends predict larger problems from
food scarcity, lack of biodiversity, increased cancer rates, inefficient
supply chains, and unsustainable energy sources.
This isnt just a climate or healthcare issue. Its a systems issue, and its
moving faster than most institutions can keep up.
Cultural shifts driving change
Major transitions are happening, based on much more than climate. For
instance, people are realizing the real health consequences of materials they
use, air they breathe in, or water they drink.
They are changing their behavior as a result - everything from filtering
water, to choosing less processed food, demanding supply chain transparency,
choosing non toxic products, changing to electric vehicles, installing
electric or solar in households to lower household costs or prevent house
fires, rethinking building materials and construction, buying used products
over new, taking proactive measures on wildfire preventive, and replacing
disease school businesses to lower asthma rates in children.
Driving this change are factors beyond sustainability, like health,
cost-efficiency, and time-efficiency. As a result, theres pressure to
modernize infrastructure that was never built for this era, including
construction, manufacturing, CPG, food, agriculture and energy
infrastructure.
Its not about climate alone, its about upgrading trillion dollar
infrastructure to meet the needs of people today. In fact, we think the word
climate needs a full rebrand. Sustainability is a value prop to an overall
systems problem.
We need systems-level thinking
Were not just managing one crisis. Were standing on the threshold of
something bigger, a chance to rethink how we live, work, and care for each
other. There are multiple ways to change the trajectory of these problems.
For instance, government policy could make change, consumers can shift
behaviors and products they purchase (as we see happening), and companies can
choose different solutions because they are frankly better for business .
The acceleration of innovation and technology gives us an opportunity to
solve some of these problems. Entrepreneurs must be bold and ambitious to
solve these massive problems, and investors should take bolder bets on
transformative long-term technology versus incremental innovation.
While the problems are complex and interconnected more than we realize, it
starts with us and the power is in our hands to drive real change. These
technologies can be real businesses , scalable companies that solve massive
problems in trillion dollar industries. They will impact both people and the
planet.
We need to commercialize more of this breakthrough technology. We need to
tell better stories around it where its less abstract, and why it matters. We
need to show and prove that these businesses are not just better for the
planet, but better, cheaper, healthier, more sustainable. Because in the
end, this isnt just about climate or chemicals or cancer alone. Its about how
we live, work, and operate. It is about how humanity flourishes for the
long-term. Its about how we have more cost-efficiency, less dependency,
better outcomes, more reliability, more abundance.
Technology and science can help.
The change wont be easy, but its already happening. If were bold enough to
focus on root causes, not just symptoms, we can create a world that doesnt
just work better for everyoneits also more sustainable.
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