for: climate crisis - air travel, climate crisis - triage approach, climate communications - SRG suggestion - energy diet

comment

• Kevin's use of the term triage is aligned to a Stop Reset Go strategy of reframing the challenges in the next few years in terms of a potentially temporary energy diet
• That may be more palatable for transition for people accustomed to the existing high carbon lifestyle culture to accept
• The potential of developing alternative energy resources plus a shift to low energy / high efficiency lifestyle could get us to the target and provide incentive for a drastic energy consumption cut

for: climate crisis - voting for global political green candidates, podcast - Planet Critical, interview - Planet Critical - James Schneider - communications officer - Progressive International, green democratic revolution, climate crisis - elite control off mainstream media

podcast: Planet Critical

title: Overthrowing the Ruling Class: The Green Democratic Revolution

summary

• This is a very insightful interview with James Schneider, communications officer of Progressive International on the scales of political change required to advert our existential Poly / meta / meaning crisis.
• James sees 3 levels of crisis
  • ordinary crisis emerging from a broken system
  • larger wicked problems that cannot be solved in isolation
  • the biggest umbrella crisis that covers all others - the last remaining decades of the fossil fuel system,
    • due to peak oil but accelerated by
    • climate crisis
• There has to be a paradigm shift on governance, as the ruling elites are driving humanity off the cliff edge
• This is not incremental change but a paradigm shift in governance
• To do that, we have to adopt an anti-regime perspective, that is not reinforcing the current infective administrative state, otherwise, as COVID taught us, we will end up driving the masses to adopt hard right politicians
• In order to establish the policies that are aligned to the science, the people and politicians have to be aligned.
• Voting in candidates who champion policies aligned to science is a leverage point.
• That can only be done if the citizenry is educated enough to vote for such politicians
• So there are two parallel tasks to be done:
  • mass education program to educate citizens
  • mass program to encourage candidates aligned to climate science to run for political office

• one of the reasons why we don't do it is that
  • we think there needs to also be a sudden huge change inside
  • but actually there doesn't need to be a sudden age change inside at all
  • that thing is funnily enough getting in the way
• An awful lot of people who write about ecological things in the newspaper are preventing you from being ecological
• I know that sounds a bit rude to my to my colleagues you know who write editorials for newspapers
  • but it I'm afraid it's true because you know
  • you look at page one of the newspaper and basically it says
    • you're stupid right ?
    • it gives you a whole bunch of facts that you didn't know
      • in the form mostly of quite raw data
      • it just sort of dumps the data on you which we don't do about
    • anything else we don't do it about?
      • we don't do it about racism
      • we don't do it about economics
    • we don't just dump data on on page one but we do do it regarding global warming and I think that's a bit of a problem
  • then you go on to the middle of the newspaper and you get to the editorial section
  • and the editorial section is saying
    • you're evil
    • you're a bad person
    • you're not being ecological enough
  • stupid and evil is not a good place from which to launch a successful politics or ethics or any kind of creativity
  • what is creativity fundamentally?
  • it's inviting the future
  • creativity means you're allowing the future to be different from the past doesn't it?
    • because you're creating something (new)
    • that's what creating means
    • and in order to do it successfully you actually have to be incredibly gentle