Foundations 19 – Infrastructure Space

Unwillingness is in fact often encountered, confirmed Arab Ho- ballah, but it’s usually just hiding a shocking ignorance of the matter. “Governments send people to discuss so many different agreements on so many different issues – I don’t blame them that they don’t have a deep knowledge of every one of them.” So it’s up to the professionals to provide those responsible with this knowledge and thereby contribute to the shift of power. “But we have to be careful not to expect changes to happen overnight.” Maria Atkinson advised against opting out of the decision-making process and advocated making use of the global network in order to gain new insights, exchange ideas, and make decision makers more accessible. In summary, Rolf Soiron affirmed that we urgently need a new political framework, including rewards and sanctions, to steer the world in a sustainable and economically feasible direction. Money is not the biggest problem. “The real challenge is probably to get the whole population of this planet moving in a sustainable di- rection – in a decentralized way!” Detroit clearly shows one thing that mustn’t be overlooked: It takes a long time before appropriate initiatives even start rolling.

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