2030
"Hinge year" for irretrievable global energy supply collapse
2040
Year by which 2°C global warming is locked in
2050
From 2020 onwards 6 billion lives lost in the "polycrisis"
Remastering Our Future
Saving Lives
No green-for-green's-sake projects or technocratic solutions in search of a problem. All initiatives undertaken must show a demonstrable pathway to preservation and enhancement of both human and non-human life.
Empowering Change
Change - real change - has only ever come from independent pioneers, not from government or big corporations. Cool Planet Foundation acts as a repository to fund publicly accessible philanthropic projects.
Supporting Innovation
The absence of shareholders allows for greater flexibility in decision-making and governance, opening the door to opportunities that might be perceived as risky by business-as-usual investment.
Anchoring Wealth
Wealth in both monetary and non-monetary terms must be protected from hostile speculation and manipulation to endure the transition to a sustainable world for all living beings.
Charter
Millions of young ones are coming to realise that realistically their life expectancy is now less than half that of their parents.
In short, they do not want to be sacrificed by adults eager to keep propping up obsolete beliefs.
Those millions want action now. They are not getting it… And they will not get it, not from any government or established business. Current elites don’t know how to respond, they have never sought to acquire the knowledge and experience required to understand the emerging global polycrisis and how to address it.
Cool Planet Foundation is the not-for-profit arm of the Fourth Transition Initiative, which is about redesigning how we access and use energy so that:
1) Everyone on the Planet may have the energy required to live decently in safe, secure, affordable, profitable and sustainable ways and;
2) To ensure we also have the very large amounts of energy needed to tackle all the other ecological, social, health and financial challenges that are part of the polycrisis - otherwise known as the Energy Seneca.
