La Remontada: What If We Could Save the Earth Ourselves? 🇬🇧

✅ Can We Really Save the Earth Ourselves?
What Barcelona, Napoleon – and you – have in common.

The name La Remontada is no coincidence.
It describes exactly what lies ahead of us: making the impossible possible.
Achieving a significant victory against climate change in a very short amount of time.
Either we win – or we go under. That’s the motto.

Where does the term come from?

La Remontada is a legendary expression in football.
It comes from one of the most famous matches in Champions League history:
FC Barcelona vs. Paris Saint-Germain, March 8th, 2017.

In the Round of 16, PSG had already won the first leg 4–0 – an apparently uncatchable lead.
Even Barcelona’s own fans believed: the dice had been cast.
But in the second leg, at Camp Nou, the unthinkable happened:
Barcelona won 6–1.
That meant total victory – despite the 0–4 deficit in the first match.
The impossible had been made possible.
To this day, no other team in the world has ever turned around such a result.

Since then, La Remontada – the comeback, the great turnaround – has stood for one thing:
Making the impossible possible, even when everything seems lost.

The term has long outgrown football –
becoming a symbol of hope, of courage, of fighting back against all odds.
Because life is not mathematics.

Today, we are facing the exact same challenge.
The effects of climate change are clearly visible.
Only trees – billions of them, planted every year, for at least 30 years –
and education for humanity in all matters of climate, resources, and recycling
can help us now.

A seemingly impossible task –
in a very short amount of time.

Our Remontada.

In the spring of 1800, Napoleon wanted to lead his army across the Alps
to retake Italy, which was under Austrian control.
His generals thought the idea was insane – even impossible:
An army with thousands of soldiers, with cannons and horses – through the Alps?
In spring, with snow, narrow passes, avalanche danger?
It would mean thousands of deaths before even reaching the goal.

And Napoleon replied:

“Impossible? That’s just one option among many possibilities.”
And he succeeded – without a single loss.

Just like Napoleon.
Just like FC Barcelona.

Now, it’s up to all of us to make the impossible possible.
9 billion people. 9 billion voices. One Earth.
We only have this one – let’s save it.