We’ve been told so many times that there’s only one possible path forward that we almost started to believe it. The Impossible Future exists to remind us otherwise: there are already so many people, in different corners of the world, imagining other futures and building the solutions we need. We have launched Unlock the Future, the crowdfunding campaign that will
Doughnut Economics A new systemic approach for a regenerative and distributive economy https://youtu.be/UtfJfPtq-6k “The economy has to grow, there is no other way”, is what most politicians and economists from either left or right tell us. And with that growth we can then fix inequality or pollution. But without growth there would be no jobs and no money to change
https://youtu.be/bjnpT0cqmSk A poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Vandana Shiva, collectively animated by @the.impossible.future and presented by Daniel Wahl Daniel Wahl, author of “Designing Regenerative Cultures“, of the Medium blog “Design for Sustainability” and coordinator of the Gaia Education ‘s EDE program that greatly inspired The Impossible Future, tells us how the poem resonates in present times and what it
Suddenly, what we thought was impossible happened. The world as we knew it ended and has turned into an apocalyptic movie. As the global economy was burning down, we started appreciating things we had taken for granted, with a growing feeling that the reality we had been living in would not ever come back.
In the future, economists will have a different vision of the economy and will measure success differently. Few ideas unite left-wing and right-wing politicians like that of economic growth. We can debate all we want about how to generate growth and what to do with the money created, but the undisputed fact remains that we must pursue annual growth rates
We decided to make an animated documentary about our future. Why animation? Because it is what we know best, and because it seemed to us like a good way of presenting groundbreaking ideas that are only known in certain circles to a broader audience, turning complex concepts into stories anyone can relate to.
