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The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues growing and the ecological crisis increases even though people should be able to change quickly the direction of the development. Due to the Climate Report of the IPCC there has arisen a need for the humankind to understand a method how to develop the practices and cultures systematically and speed up the activity for securing the ecological sustainability. In this thesis, I am going to examine Yrjö Engeström’s theorizing and cultural-historical activity theory because the framework offers theoretical and practical tools for change and helps to structure the conceptual factors which humane collaboration consists of. The Activity theory’s research findings have confirmed dynamism, multivoicedness and contradiction in coexistence; practices are not fixed but they carry historical and contradictionary social voices and they too can change. The ecological crisis is a manifestation of the need for change. The need for change is rising from the environment due to the local practices around the world, which are inconsistent with the sustainability of the earth. My research data consists of articles in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat during the period September - November 2018. I collected 78 articles that were linked to the IPCC-report, climate change or the ecological crisis in general. I did a theory-based content analysis to my data, which was based on the model of activity system and the cultural-historical activity theory. The main purpose of this thesis was to explore in a hypothetical way whether the theoretical frame of reference is a useful tool in understanding the collaboration concerning the ecological crisis. My research findings supported the theory’s suitability for the challenge. People as agents need to understand the meaningfulness of fighting against the ecological crisis and to understand the contradictory nature of the collaboration. The humankind requires cooperation as well as accelerating and spreading the innovations based on sustainable development globally. This research method offers tools for that direction.