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,…
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”, which inspired me to think about the application of AI to stabilize the Earth’s climate. The investment company BLACKROCK, which is arguably the world’s largest asset manager [3], runs the…
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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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