The climate crisis urges us to question our orientation towards materialism. Inner wealth is worth more than outer wealth. Consumption offers fewer moments of happiness than time spent in idleness.

We could live much better and at the same time cause much less damage to our environment.

This requires a cultural change. A departure from performance pressure, competition and growth-mania.

In this process a look at the mystical traditions of humanity can be inspiring.

Jupp Hartmann, born in 1956, is a painter and writer living in Hamburg, Germany.