In his function of president of freshly forming RCE Berlin, aspiring to get official status with the UNU-IAS program, Eric spent some good time with fellow sustainability education professionals from all over the world and United Nations University on this 3 day online conference hosted by RCE Scotland. In terms of youth leadership, there have been particularly interesting sessions on nature education and a world without mining that Eric will share more about in YL media. An impression of the quality of data:

The electric society currently promoted as green and sustainable to protect life on Earth requires, according to projections and plans of the planet’s corporations and governments

• 15 x more mining that currently happening
• over the next 40 years as much metal extraction as over the past 7,000 years
• and scratching off the ocean floor

which destroys

• countless ecosystems
• the ocean food chain

and

• creates gigantic poisonous plumes of dust in the entire ocean
• killing off fish populations at unimaginable scale

and, this is the most appealing to big dirty industry

• entirely out of sight of the public
• entirely uncontrollable by agencies or civil society

There’s your “electric car society”. Very intelligent and caring.