However, what is very clear and, all in all, comforting, is that we are already sustainable. At least we try. Because sustainability is something that is measured only by comparison with what already exists. You can't be completely sustainable, but you can certainly be more sustainable than a week, a month or ten years ago – Odoardo Fioravanti explains it well here.
The years we are living are fundamental, from this point of view. Companies want to do things well, in most cases. So they take action to avoid the pitfalls of simplification, betting on research. Net of shameless and useless actions of greenwashing, the intent is rigorous and serious. Although, and this is good, design is not really one of the main producers of the carbon footprint, or the production of greenhouse gases that characterizes any activity on the planet. In any case, the 20s will hopefully be remembered as the decade in which we redesigned the world and, in this operation, it is right and proper that design is at the forefront.
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