Who owns the night? For one of the goats, the answer is easy to answer. It is Greven who owns the garden between dusk and dawn. It has become clear now that autumn is arriving, and the dark part of the day gets longer by the day. Greven is a badger. There have been stories about him in the neighborhood since we moved in, but we’ve never seen him. Until this summer. The thing is that he has invited parts of his family as well and things are getting messy.
I Google. I talk to a friend. The answers are clear: load the gun.
I then read in WWF’s recent Living Planet Report 2020 that the number of wild mammals, birds, frogs, reptiles and fish have fallen by an average of 68 percent since the 1970s. Climate change is a contributing factor, but humans have many strings to their bow. We cut down forests, pollute water and air, fish the seas empty, hunt furiously and behave like there is no tomorrow. The situation is critical.
It feels hard to extinguish Greven and his clan at that point, even if badgers don’t belong to the threatened crowd. And it may definitely be necessary to reclaim our garden in one way or another.
H&M includes biological diversity in their strategy
In connection to the report, the scientific journal Nature releases the article Bending the curve in which they describe that it’s not too late. We can still reverse the trend, but it must happen now, and a strategy is required.
H&M is a company that already works intensively with sustainability and now also includes biodiversity in its sustainability strategy. The objective, which lacks deadline, is to create a positive net impact on biodiversity. It will be exciting to follow how they will deal with the issue. What we can hope for is that more companies will follow them and take the issue into the management meetings and boardrooms.
Because that’s where sustainability in all its complexity ends up today. As it becomes business critical, the issue gets more airtime. We will do our utmost to increase the airtime for this issue at management and board meetings even more. That is our contribution.
