WePlanet
WePlanet logo | |
| Founders | Amardeo Sarma, Rudy Rabbinge
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| Type | International NGO |
| Legal status | active |
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| Headquarters | August Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Brussels |
Region | Worldwide |
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President | Adam Błażowski |
Secretary General | Karolina Lisslö Gylfe |
Advisor | Mark Lynas |
| Website | weplanet |
WePlanet is an alliance of many environmental organizations worldwide. According to the organization's website, the alliance is made up of organizations from eighteen countries. Launched in the 2010s as "RePlanet", its name was changed to "WePlanet" in 2023 citing potential conflicts with existing companies following expansion.
WePlanet and most of its affiliate national organizations are associated with an ecomodernist environmental philosophy. Ecomodernism places emphasis on pragmatic, evidence-based and science-backed solutions to address the problems created by the environmental crisis. Ecomodernism also advocates the benefits of technical progress for the environment. Young ecomodernist activists claim that older environmental NGOs and established green parties have often stuck to anti-technology positions inherited from the 20th century, which the new urgency of climate change should have lead them to question
Critics of WePlanet have often targeted ecomodernism in general, including attacking its reliance on Technological fix, and portraying its view of eco-economic decoupling as dystopian. UK environmentalist George Monbiot has criticized ecomodernists for their assumed subservience to corporate interests as well as for their irrational faith in a literal and unidimensional view of modernization. Monbiot appears, however, to view WePlanet as different from the ecomodernist mainstream, because he has teamed up with them for the "Reboot food" campaign. This has, in turn, lead to Monbiot becoming the target of critics from anti-GMO activists for this supposed about-face and WePlanet being accused of astroturfing.
WePlanet claims to differ from the technocentrist tendencies of ecomodernism by advocating rewilding as a non-technical objective, associated with land-sparing agriculture