1. Introduction Climate activism is often based on loosely defined concepts such as “Non-Violent Direct Action” (NVDA), “civil disobedience”, “strikes”, “protests”, and other forms, which may be used with different meanings by different groups, and, therefore, lack conceptual clarity. In the following I try to systematize forms of (climate) activism for system change to provide…
1. Background The leading climate movement “Återställ Våtmarker” [1] (engl. “Rebuild wetlands”) in Sweden, has peformed a highly disruptive blockade of the major E4 motorway in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden, on Monday, August 29, 2022. The police and legal system reacted harshly to this street block by arresting 10 activists, presumably to avoid…
1. Background A recent research article [1] warned that: “an advanced agent motivated to intervene in the provision of reward would likely succeed and with catastrophic consequences” First Author Michael Cohen also summarized the contents of the paper in a presentation [2] and on social media [3]: https://twitter.com/Michael05156007/status/1567240026307575808 In addition, the article considerable attention in…
1. Background A common user problem is the handling of multiple open documents (windows, buffers, tabs) with long and similar file names, titles and paths, which have similar content. For example, if you have to merge the revisions of multiple authors of the same document. The problem is to find a specific (open) document in…
Clean air is currently free for everybody. If air is polluted, clean air will have to be produced, and, thereby, be owned by a producer. The producer will, thereby, be able to impose a social structure determined by his “rights” and a “network of debts” upon other humans, who purchased his product, represented by his…
While the true motivation of the Russian president and dictator Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine is not completely clear, I would like to offer an intepretation of Putin’s behaviour interpreting his personality and role as mob boss, ie similar to Pablo Escobar as a real personality or Tony Soprano as a fictional personality:…
Här diskuterar jag om Sveriges regering och förvaltning bryter mot internationella och nationella lagar och normer i det nuvarande klimatnödläget: 1. Stark evidens för ett klimatnödläge som kräver nationell och global mobilisering Rockström et al. (2020). “Climate tipping point – too risky to bet against” [23] p. 595: “We argue that the intervention time left…
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…
Die Bundesumweltministerin und Leiterin der 1. Weltklimakonferenz (COP1, Berlin) Angela Merkel kannte den Bericht des WBGU (1995) [1] wahrscheinlich in- und auswendig , dh Kanzlerin Merkel weiß seit 1995 Jahren, dass im Jahr 2020 ein kritischer Punkt (möglicherweise point of no return) erreicht wird. “Die Fortsetzung der gegenwärtigen Emissionspraxis (Business as Usual) würde uns zwar…
The following steps, which can follow a linear or circular (spiraling) pattern of escalation, describe defensive public relations (propaganda) strategies which organizations, mostly governments or companies, apply if they are accused of misconduct against the public interest. All actions by the accusing party (activists) can be promoted by methods of civil resistance. Action by activists,…
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