We are all actors in this play. Together all our little actions cumulate into the result that lies before us. So, it does matter.

I try to walk my talk, and even though I'm a bit of an outlier, I hope to lead my daughter with the examples I've set and lived. Consciously chose to have only one child, designed and built my own energy-neutral bio-based home, smack bang in the city centre of Amsterdam NL so all can see it surrounded by concrete heat-sink condominiums. I'm currently working on her food safety by converting 4 ha of discarded grazing land into a food forest in France, actively investing in start-ups like Aptera, Qnetic, Kitemill and my own quite innovative structural wood connector...and in supporting various parallel media so that the dissonance voices of other may be heard in this painful era of censorship. But perhaps my most valuable contribution to humanity is the definition I offer as a metric of where to invest our scarce collective resources:

“Our ability to create and maintain high levels of future uncertainty“ [1]

All micro vibrations but one never knows where, how and how strong they one day may resonate. Every dollar one spends is a daily vote made for the future one supports. All the small steps taken by the many carve the road others might follow more easily. So yes, it rather does matter quite a bit :)

[1] https://gl-10190.medium.com/debunking-degrowth-part-ii-aded18d44652