0. Vorwort Zum Start der Reihe “Warme und aufgewärmte Worte” möchte ich ein Gedicht mit dem Titel “Anthropozän oder Der letzte Kuss” vorstellen, welches ich in einem Anflug von Sentimentalität letzten Dienstag verfasst habe. Dafür dass ich davor mein letztes Gedicht vor mehr als 20 Jahren geschrieben habe, finde ich es ganz gelungen. Es hat…
The following text lists psychosocial mechanisms contributing to climate change and climate action: Climate Crisis Individual belief system Cognition: complex problem solving research, incl poor performance solving problems with time lag between cause and effect, non-linearity (cf research by Dietrich Dörner) Confirmation bias Fundamental attribution error Mechanisms of creating doubt (cf Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of…
The following essay explores the meaning of money inspired by Modern Monetary Theory [1] and its relevance regarding ecological crises, especially the climate crisis. 1. Assumptions Money consists of statements about human behaviour in the future. The value of money depends on the shared belief of a group of humans. The shared belief is created…
“We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ” [1, also 2] Stephen Hawking In my opinion “stupidity” is largely caused by “flock behaviour” which defines as smart what the majority of the peer group…
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1. Introduction Civil rights movements (“grassroots”) focusing, for example, on ecological justice, racial justice, or economic justice have usually little budget available to organize public protests. Visual messages, eg posters and banners, and audible messages are key elements at public protests. While I am presenting tutorials to create visuals elsewhere [1], I want to propose…
“Die Fortsetzung der gegenwärtigen Emissionspraxis (Business as Usual) würde uns zwar noch ca. 25 Jahre Zeit geben, dann aber innerhalb weniger Jahre einen solch drastischen Minderungszwang erfordern, daß kaum Strukturen und Technologien vorstellbar sind, die diese Minderung erbringen könnten.” (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen, 1995) [1, Seite 1] Als Bundesumweltministerin und Leiterin der 1.…
I used the website #ShowYourStripes [¹] to create a localized “Warming Stripes” plot showing the temperatures changes in Uppsala from 1773 to 2019. The plots are based on data from the website “Climate Lab Book” [2]. I then used the high-quality image (png-format, 300dpi) to design a tie (classical design, 90mm width) using the website…
Neoliberalism and its promotion of “freedom” is based on a logical fallacy of “false equivalence” of freedom and civil liberty. If “freedom” means the absence of laws (ie “deregulation”), this will only lead to the dominance of the ruthless and rich and oppression (ie loss of liberty) for the rest. However, “civil liberty” means that…
Big data and artificial intelligence may be useful in fighting racism, if we replace race as a (weak) predictor of future behaviour (eg past of future crime) [Reference missing] with other (sufficiently) informative predictors (eg social score?). However, this would require citizens to share personal information with public authorities, which creates new risks. However, by…
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