According to the Swedish Environment Protection Agency [¹] is Swedish transport and consumption about 10 times higher than sustainable , therefore, I wonder how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport and consumption in an effective way. Purchasing goods and services incl transport is a basic right in a liberal capitalist society, and therefore these…
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,…
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 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])…
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.” ― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People I created this website to support efforts to protect the biosphere and face the socio-economic and socio-ecologic crises of our times:…
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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