Comments on: What kind of climate change thinker are you? (version 2)

By: James Hetherington

James Hetherington — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:21:33 +0000

3 most, and then, since in the new rules I’m not allowed to put 4 least, then, 1 least.

As I said in the previous thread, although I favour 3, a succesful 3 will require lots of 2 and incentivise lots of 1.

By: Aubrey Meyer

Aubrey Meyer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:50:44 +0000

Contraction and Convergence [C&C]

Lucy – Here are two references re C&C that may help: -
http://www.tangentfilms.com/GCIEAC.pdf
http://www.tangentfilms.com/GCIjul6.pdf

The propositions are: – contraction:concentrations [urgency] and within that contraction:convergence [equity].

A survey of approaches at this stage seems a little late. Applying the C&C principle at the raight rates is the issue.

By: How to tackle climate change - the result : Matthew Taylor’s blog

How to tackle climate change - the result : Matthew Taylor’s blog — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:55:22 +0000

[...] for me to update on the cultural theory survey I ran last week. In all – at the time of writing – seventy people participated. Thank [...]

By: Alex H

Alex H — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:09:20 +0000

1 most attractive, 2 least convincing.

By: joe

joe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:53:27 +0000

I think the problem is deeper than most people think.

I believe most people will actually do nothing – or almost nothing – about climate change. The reason is that it is hard to arouse people to action when a problem is large, and we’re generally very lazy.

The mechanics of this is that people look at the problem and then see that their little contribution would make almost no difference on its own. And they briefly consider the effect on their lifestyle the change would make and decide that if nobody else is going to do anything very much, then neither are they.

So then we move into a phase where an enlightened minority believe that a change can truly be made if they change themselves and force the government to change. Unfortunately the enlightened get discouraged and the government fiddles because of many other pressures.

Then we realise it is all too late anyway.