Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today suggested creating a new life-style based on ‘zero waste and zero carbon’ to protect the planet from climate catastrophes, presenting his longstanding dream of creating a new world of three zeroes.
“In order to survive, we need to create another culture. A counter-culture which is based on a different lifestyle. It is based on zero waste. It will limit consumption to essential needs, leaving no residual waste,” he said while speaking at the opening session of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit in COP29, held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
This lifestyle will also be based on zero carbon where there will be no fossil fuel but only renewable energy, Prof Yunus said, adding there will be an economy that will be based primarily on zero personal profit like the social business, according to a message received here.
Prof Yunus said the people are doing it deliberately and they have chosen a lifestyle which works against the environment, while they justify this with an economic framework, which is considered as natural as the planetary system.
“That economic framework thrives on limitless consumption. The more you consume the more you grow. The more you grow, the more money you make. Maximization of profit is treated as the force of gravity which lets everything in the system play its role according to our desire,” he added.
