Back in 2014, Irina Bokova, then the Director-General of UNESCO, launched the UNESCO Roadmap in 2014 for a Global Action program on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
Bokova began this document with a foreword, which made it clear that for humanity to survive the coming decades, and move to a way of life that could be sustained, tinkering at the edges of our system would simply not do. Bokova called for nothing less than a "paradigm shift" in the way we work, live, and consume resources.
That's a big, bold statement. A total rethink of everything we are doing is pretty scary. Our economies, societies, and ways of traveling, consuming, and powering our lifestyles have to become something totally different. This is not just switching to electric cars and cutting down on the beefburgers, but something much, much more.
