- Dec 2023
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
-
for: James Hansen - 2023 paper, key insight - James Hansen, leverage point - emergence of new 3rd political party, leverage point - youth in politics, climate change - politics, climate crisis - politics
-
Key insight: James Hansen
- The key insight James Hansen conveys is that
- the key to rapid system change is
- WHAT? the rapid emergence of a new, third political party that does not take money from special interest lobbys.
- WHY? Hit the Achilles heel of the Fossil Fuel industry
- HOW? widespread citizen / youth campaign to elect new youth leaders across the US and around the globe
- WHEN? Timing is critical. In the US,
- Don't spoil the vote for the two party system in 2024 elections. Better to have a democracy than a dictatorship.
- Realistically, likely have to wait to be a contender in the 2028 election.
- the key to rapid system change is
- The key insight James Hansen conveys is that
-
reference
- paper - Global Warming in the Pipeline
- Michael Mann's critique of the paper
-
-
Washington is a swamp it we throw out one party the other one comes in they take money from special interests and we don't have a government that's serving the interests 01:25:09 of the public that's what I think we have to fix and I don't see how we do that unless we have a party that takes no money from special interests
-
for: key insight- polycrisis - climate crisis - political crisis, climate crisis - requires a new political party, money in politics, climate crisis - fossil fuel lobbyists, climate change - politics, climate crisis - politics, James Hansen - key insight - political action - 3rd party
-
key insight
- Both democrats and conservatives are captured by fossil fuel lobbyist interests
- A new third political party that does not take money from special interests is required
- The nature of the polycrisis is that crisis are entangled . This is a case in point. The climate crisis cannot be solved unless the political crisis of money influencing politics is resolved
- The system needs to be rapidly reformed to kick money of special interest groups out of politics.
-
question
- Given the short timescale, the earliest we can achieve this is 2028 in the US Election cycle
- Meanwhile what can we do in between?
- How much impact can alternative forms of local governance like https://sonec.org/ have?
- In particular, could citizens form local alternative forms of governance and implement incentives to drive sustainable behavior?
-
Tags
- key insight - polycrisis - climate crisis - political crisis
- James Hansen - key insight - political action - 3rd party
- climate crisis - politics
- climate change - politics
- local governance
- leverage point - emergence of 3rd political party
- climate crisis - leverage point - new party that takes no money from special interest
- money in politicis
- key insight - James Hansen
- SONEC
- climate change - pollitics
- climate crisis- fossil fuel lobbyists
- James Hansen - 2023 paper
- climate crisis - requires a new political party
- climate crisis - leverage point - youth - politics
- leverage point - youth in politics
Annotators
URL
-
- Sep 2023
-
www.nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com
-
-
for: climate change - false binary, jobs vs environment, example, example climate change - false binary, climate departure, leverage point
-
example: false environmental binary
- activists need to better communicate the false binary that climate denialists keep using to pull the wool over people's eyes.
- jobs vs environment ignores the short term threat of environmental degradation
- this is where participatory climate departure can show the threat in a visceral, concrete way that is far more compelling you the average person than any intellectual attempt to explain the differences example - climate change - false binary
-
-
- Aug 2023
-
www.mdpi.com www.mdpi.com
-
Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Disproportionate Beef Consumption among US Adults in an Age of Global Warming
- for: climate change impacts - dietary, climate change impacts - meat eating, carbon footprint - meat, leverage point - meat eating
- title: Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Disproportionate Beef Consumption among US Adults in an Age of Global Warming
- author: Donald Rose
-
date: Aug. 30, 2023
-
stats
- study based on NHANES study of 10, 248 U.S. adults between 2015 and 2018 indicated that 12% accounted for all beef consumed
-
-
www.futurity.org www.futurity.org
-
- for: climate change impacts - meat, carbon footprint - meat, leverage point - food, stats, stats - meat eating
- title:
- stats
- 12% OF AMERICANS EAT HALF OF ALL BEEF CONSUMED IN A DAY
- date: Aug. 30, 2023
- source: https://www.futurity.org/beef-food-climate-change-2967702-2/
- cited paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795
-
-
theconversation.com theconversation.com
-
Climate change can drive social tipping points – for better or for worse
-
for: social tipping point, social tipping points, leverage point, leverage points, STP, 25% STP threshold
-
title
- Climate change can drive social tipping points – for better or for worse
- source
- date
- July 31, 2023
- author
- Sonia Graham
- reference
-
-
-
www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
-
-
for: social tipping points, STP, social tipping point, leverage point, Sirkku Juhola
-
title
- Social tipping points and adaptation limits in the context of systemic risk: Concepts, models and governance
- authors
- Sirkku Juhola
- Tatiana Filatova
- Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler
- Reinhard Mechler
- Jurgen Scheffran
- Pia-Johanna Schweizer
- date
- Sept 21, 2022
-
abstract
- Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere.
- Social tipping points have been framed as mechanisms in socio-environmental systems, where a small change in the underlying elements or behavior of actors triggers a large non-linear response in the social system.
- With climate change becoming more acute, it is important to know whether and how societies can adapt.
- While social tipping points related to climate change have been associated with positive or negative outcomes,
- overstepping adaptation limits has been linked to adverse outcomes where actors' values and objectives are strongly compromised.
- Currently, the evidence base is limited, and most of the discussion on social tipping points in climate change adaptation and risk research is conceptual or anecdotal.
- This paper brings together three strands of literature -
- social tipping points,
- climate adaptation limits and
- systemic risks,
- which so far have been separate.
- Furthermore, we discuss
- methods and
- models
- used to illustrate the dynamics of
- social and
- adaptation tipping points
- in the context of cascading risks at different scales beyond adaptation limits.
- We end with suggesting that further evidence is needed to identify tipping points in social systems,
- which is crucial for developing appropriate governance approaches.
-
reference
-
-
-
www.rifs-potsdam.de www.rifs-potsdam.de
-
-
for: social tipping point, social tipping points, leverage point, STP
-
reference
-
-
- Jul 2023
-
www.nature.com www.nature.com
-
In addition to their high GHG emissions from consumption, high-SES people have disproportionate climate influence through at least four non-consumer roles: as investors, as role models within their social networks and for others who observe their choices, as participants in organizations and as citizens seeking to influence public policies or corporate behaviour
- for: high-SES, 1%, W2W, inequality, carbon inequality, elites, billionaires, millionaires, leverage point
- five high carbon emission areas of high-SES, HNWI, VHNWI
- consumption
- investor
- role model within social networks
- participants in organizations
- citizens seeking to influence public policies or corporate behavior
-
We focus on individuals and households with high socioeconomic status (SES; henceforth, high-SES people) because they have generated many of the problems of fossil fuel dependence that affect the rest of humanity.
- for: high-SES, 1%, W2W, inequality, carbon inequality, elites, billionaires, millionaires, leverage point
- definition
- high-SES
- high socioeconomic status
- equivalent to high net worth individual (HNWI) or
- very high net worth individual (VHNWI)
- high-SES
-
- for: carbon inequality, w2w, leverage point - climate change, 1%, inequality, wealth tax
- title
- The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions
- authors
- Kristian S. Nielsen
- Kimberly A. Nicholas
- Felix Creutzig
- Thomas Dietz
- Paul C. Stern
- date
- Sept 30, 2021 -source
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00900-y
- abstract
- People with high socioeconomic status disproportionally affect energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions directly
- through their consumption and
- indirectly through their financial and social resources.
- However, few climate change mitigation initiatives have targeted this population segment,
- and the potential of such initiatives remains insufficiently researched.
- In this Perspective, we analyse key characteristics of high-socioeconomic-status people and explore five roles through which they have a disproportionate impact on energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions and potentially on climate change mitigation, namely as:
- consumers,
- investors,
- role models,
- organizational participants and
- citizens.
- We examine what is known about their disproportionate impact via consumption and
- explore their potential influence on greenhouse gas emissions through all five roles.
- We suggest that future research should focus on strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by high-socioeconomic-status people and to align their
- investments,
- organizational choices and
- actions as social and political change agents
- with climate change mitigation goals.
- People with high socioeconomic status disproportionally affect energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions directly
-
-
scheerpost.com scheerpost.com
-
- for: inequality, 1%, elites, carbon inequality, leverage point, leverage point - climate change, oxfam
- quote
- Richest 1% Took 2/3rds of Global Wealth Since 2020
- Richest 1% increased wealth in 2020 and 2021 twice as much as 99% of Population Earned
-
-
-
"In the paper we sketch five different roles
-
for: carbon inequality, W2W, leverage point
-
five leverage points
- consumer.
- investors
- lobbyist
- influencer
- citizen
-
-
people who are wealthy contribute the most to causing climate change, they are unfortunately also in the most ideal position to help us mitigate climate change.
- for: W2W, carbon inequality, leverage point
- quote
- "people who are wealthy contribute the most to causing climate change,
- they are unfortunately also in the most ideal position to help us mitigate climate change"
- "people who are wealthy contribute the most to causing climate change,
- author
- Kristian Nielsen
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00900-y
- The role of high-socioeconomic-status people in locking in or rapidly reducing energy-driven greenhouse gas emissions
- Kristian Nielsen
-