There is very famous scene in Film Spirited away (千と千尋の神隠し, Wp has more), where the main Chihiro looses her name and is from now on called Sen, which is one of the reason Chihiro is afterwards a slave of the witch Yubaba. Naming something and also re-naming is power. This applies to all languages, but especially English is very important, being the language of the American Empire (the OECD states) and the major language for Global exchange. The Global Fight for Climate Justice needs English as a tool for Global Exchange. But other countries with other National languages than English can and should contribute. I will argue here specially for German in Japan, which is still part of Job (teaching German as Foreign Language in a University in Japan, among other Subjects). The German "Energiewende" (energy transition, Wp has more) is far from perfect, but other countries (including Japan) can contribute from experiences in Germany. This Meme (Wp for more) used here is related to a character is used here in Nagoya, by the local electricity provider (here is a Link, to Google the character can't desplayed here). Actually the Memes in this drawing (thank you Shinko)
are related to three political spheres, first to the EU, especially to Germany, where the population is still reluctant to create Corona-bonds (Politico has more, reading the article thoroughly shows, that Merkel is not for Corona bonds). The second political sphere is the US, with the notion of the new Green New Deal (Klein 2019). And the third space is of course Japan being able to create important Memes for the future of this planet.
References
Klein, Naomi (2019), On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
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