What is going on?
Caminos
An Essay in Times of the Virus
The CO2 questions
Anton Affentranger
I confess to be very privileged. In my life I have profited from multicultural settings: a life full of contrasts and cultures. My mother left me the colour of the hot Spanish temperament and my father the stubbornness and tenacity of a Swiss German cheesemaker. I was lucky to be able to fill my backpack with a broad-based humanistic education. As a child and adolescent, I witnessed the economic and social contrasts in Latin America. As a banker I was “part of the game” in the bust-and-boom times of the last two decades of the 20th century: in New York, Hong Kong, Zürich, and Geneva. Then, during the first two decades of this century I switched the side of the negotiating table becoming an industrialist and entrepreneur driving the creation and development of a construction services group and various technology ventures.
Today I’m driven by one question only: how to put a break to “climate change” before it is too late?
