Ready for your signature: an open letter

By Joern Fischer

In my last post, I threatened that I was in the process of drafting an open letter to societal leaders.

The letter is now up and running. If you believe that many current sustainability initiatives are falling short of what is needed, I suggest you sign this letter. Also, please spread it — this will only “do something” if the number of signatures is large.

Is this a waste of time? Maybe. Maybe not. I have had various bits of feedback on the letter, ranging from “great initiative”, to “too vague”, to grumpy rants that none of this ever does anything anyway.

One thing should be clear: I don’t believe that this particular letter is perfect. I don’t know what perfect would be. I do know though that doing nothing is even less perfect.

Regarding the somewhat vague appeal in the letter: this is not because…