Information as actor for a city and an island

Climate change sometimes seems like a Star Wars battle between the Force and the Sith. Information about the relationships between people, things, the environment, and ecology has been denounced since the Club of Rome announced their findings about the limits of material growth in 1972. Their argument is crystal clear to this day – the current rate of population growth, food production, industrialisation, depletion of natural resources, and of pollution in the Earth’s water, air, and soil is serious. The ‘bigger picture’ is too big, though, and information about sustainability has a paralysing effect. Because of the trees, the forest of information can no longer be seen.