“We are on the way to extinction”.“The battle doesn't start today, it started fifty years ago. In What We Already Knew. 1972 was the year in which the Club of Rome published its legendary report Limits to growth publicised. Global capitalism was under attack.

The Blue Marble photo of Earth from space, like a blue marble in endless nothingness, stimulated a collective sense of vulnerability.


We knew even then that the planet is not doing well. Yet, all this time, we did little to save her. “Every week, we find new evidence of the incredible scale of deception by large fossil companies.“When you zoom in on today's problems, you always see the fingerprints of agricultural and dairy companies, energy companies, etc. The Christian Democrats (CDA) and conservatives (VVD, D66, CU, SGP and even the PVDA) sent the bill to the next generation time and time again. The environmental costs were never calculated '

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