- The Great Accelerations
- everything is growing exponentially
- good as bad equally
- great achievements in global quality of life
- significant accelerators
- industrial revolution → fossil-based fuels
- welfare capitalism → mass production for mass consumption
- China and India rising
- consequences
- rising mean temperature
- 2023: highest ocean temperature record (bad)
- 2023: hottest day record
- 2023: antarctic sea-ice extent lower than usual
- point-of-no-return might be closer than thought
- more droughts, more heat
- mass-migration because of
- degration of water
- degration of food
- disasters happen more frequency
- natural and man-made (e.g. wars)
- total 28.3 million people
- Great Decoupling vs Great Collapse
- signes for both, cannot differentiate
- by 2050 things will be clear
- cannot predict the future yet, can just talk about probabilities
- there is still hope, it is still a challenge, not a problem