Ubuntu

• African philosophy ‘Ubuntu’ can help us fight climate crisis.

About Ubuntu

• African word Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others’.
• This indigenous philosophy (focusing on altruism) provides an alternative way of thinking to rampant individualism.
• It will help us focus on and rebuild our relationship with the natural world and prioritise interconnectedness.
• It invokes a spirit of collective, global and regional inter-governmental action, as well as communal and individual efforts to resolve complex climate crisis.