WeDontHaveTime and the world have lost a dear eco-warrior

The world has lost one of the greatest eco-warriors. My Dear Friend and fellow WeDontHaveTime foundation board member Stuart Scott sadly passed away in Honolulu on Thursday, July 15th, 2021. After noble wrestle and treatments with cancer, he has left us all with deeply wisdom and courage on how to Facing Future (his own YouTube channel).





"I remember your keynote clearly. When you did it, you could hear a needle drop. 250 people in the audience, and everyone was 100% paying attention to you. It was very impressive and important. Many waves created because of it. "

"Thank you so much. This is the first email I opened this morning. I was so excited to see that you'd apparently found and sent the file. And I thank you more for the words even than for the file itself. I also remember how 'on' I was that day.



One of our team was looking through my older presentations. Not many of them were recorded, and only a handful at most were recorded professionally. In fact, that may have been the only one! I remembered that the one I did for your event in Stockholm was both. I only had bits of it in the compendium you put together as "This is Not a Drill".



I watched that compendium and realized that talk was perhaps the best one I've ever done. But now I realize that I had the cancer at the time. I was ignoring the pain, stupidly. Even at COP-24 which followed I took heavy painkillers rather than go to a doctor in Poland. I did my best work of any COP that year. That's when I had the privilege of introducing Greta Thunberg, who you had found on the first day of her School Strike, to the assembled world press.



Svante (Gretas father) let me put his phone number into a closing slide so he could field requests for interviews. He said afterward that his phone did not stop ringing for the rest of the COP, and that he had to turn it off for long periods.



I also remember saying to a colleague after the fourth press conference in four days with Greta, that "If I die tomorrow I will have fulfilled my purpose in this life." I guess intuitively, I knew my pain was grave and that I had ignored it for the sake of my work. "