- Point of no return will be reached soon
- experts expect 2 C or even 3 C
- carbon emissions are still increasing
- targets missed by miles - Juergen Essletzbacher
- APCC Report, Strukturen fuer ein klimafreundliches Leben
- Provision Perspective → providing things
- providing systems to provide basic needs, not products
- also lower-income households have access → more people
- need-based, not want-based
- forces to think about what matters
- use-value vs exchange-value
- Market Perspective → e.g. CO2 Tax (simple)
- price, price, price
- whats the price of a “ice bear” or the species “tiger”
- many things are non-substitutable
- fossil fuel subsidies are 7% of global GDP - IEA
- Innovation Perspective → e.g. fusion energy (expensive, complex)
- all kinds of innovation
- exnovation → stopping to do something
- green transition
- mission oriented innovation policies
- social innovation
- car sharing or urban gardening
- society-nature perspective
- nature is not something to dominate
- with industrialization humanity decoupled from nature
- personal freedom (revolt against)
- sealing of soil → more floodings (humans vs nature)
- growth compulsion → is it really good?
- what can we give up? what cannot?
- freedom tradeoffs → freedom of one is limit to another
- material flow needs to become ecological
- ecology, planetary boundaries, social justice
- no decoupling of economic growth and energy usage
Changes / Policies
- changes need to be
- effective → do what they should
- feasible → resistance to change by public must be low