Considering the urgency and massiveness of the current eco-crisis, the lack of political action or its non-proportionality is astounding and worth discussion. A common stereotype is that politicians are striving after political power, are corrupted by other powerful lobbies of the rich and are lying to the people, who are per definition in a democracy…
I recently came across the encyclical letter “Laudato Si” [1] of Pope Francis on care for our common home, ie our planet earth. I have been very much impressed by the understanding and compassion by Pope Francis with which he describes the current socio-ecological-economic crisis. In our age of “politically correct lies” were mass extinction…
The status of Sweden according to the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) Results 2018 [1, p. 4]: “Driven in particular by a comparably high performance in the index’ emissions category, Sweden ranks fourth in this year’s CCPI. Per capita emissions have showed a relatively positive development from 2010 – 2015 with and without LULUCF*. However,…
While reading that the Scientific American ranked Artifical Intelligence in 2015 among the “ten big advances that will improve life, transform computing and maybe even save the planet”, I was thinking about the ALADDIN computing system, which is used by the investment company BLACKROCK which controls about 6 trillion (6 000 000 000 000) USD…
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The following list contains important environmental reports which document the status of the biosphere in chronological order (to be extended). World Economic Forum (2019-01-15). Global Risks Report 2019. Source: https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2019 G20 (2018-11-14). G20 Brown to Green Report 2018. Source: https://www.climate-transparency.org/g20-climate-performance/g20report2018 Comment: The Brown to Green Report 2018 is the world’s most comprehensive review of G20…
Some websites & blogs so good, they need mentioning (to be updated): https://350.org (The most perfect climate action website I can think of!) https://www.monbiot.com (Author Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot) http://www.timdechristopher.org (Author Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher)
I just came across the following 24-page brochure which I found excellent in terms of condensing current science regarding the climate crisis into messages and actions, while firmly based on psychology (esp. social, behavioral and clinical psychology) with statements well-referenced in the (scientific) literature. Some highlights: According to Professor of Psychology Noam Shpancer: “Human beings…
The biosphere and human society is experiencing a socio-economic [1] and socio-ecologic [1, 2] crisis with potentially catastrophic consequences for humankind and the biosphere in total at a scale which requires urgent (in terms of years), massive (in terms of a reduction of consumption of a factor of 4 in highly-industrialized countries like Sweden [4])…
To understand the status of our biosphere, Rockström et al. (2009, Nature) [1] developed the concept of planetary boundaries regarding 9 planetary systems and provided an assessment on whether these systems have already exceeded these limits. Their assessments were updated in a publication by Steffen et al. (2015, Science) [2] (see also [3] for an…
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