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    A s t r a t e g y f o r d i s c u s s i o n

    Restoring a safe climate at emergency speed(Australian edition)

    Philip Sutton, Manager, RSTI | 9 June 2014 / Version 209 (First version: 15 May 2014)

    The purpose of this document is to set out a basic skeleton ofstrategic insights and actions that could make a campaign for therestoration of a s a f e c l i m a t e successful. It is hoped the draftstrategy will contribute to a robust discussion in the climatemovement about strategy. The document is a work-in-progress andwill be updated and improved over time. Feedback critical orotherwise is enthusiastically welcomed.

    While not everything that needs to be done to restore a safe climateis covered in this document, it nevertheless includes, to say the

    least, a pretty big work program. But resources for action at themoment are very limited. So in the spirit of practical idealism weneed to both hold on to our end goal and at the same time, forpractical reasons, limit ourimmediatework program to what can bemanaged with the current resources and capabilities. Limitingactions in the here-and-now while maintaining a very demandinggoal, puts a premium on choosing the most effective strategies andactions and on the most effective sequencing of the action ramp-up.

    Contents

    The document is made up of:

    a diagram setting out the minimum set of high-level safe climate communications memesp3

    discussion of what sort of strategic challenge we are facingp4

    a first steps diagramp5

    a table that outlines the bigger strategic picturep5

    definitionsp14

    reference listp15

    "E v e r y t h i n g s h o u l d b e m a d e a s s i m p l e a s p o s s i b l e , b u t n o t s i m p l e r ".An elegant 1972 paraphrase of a longer 1933 Albert Einstein quotation.

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    The minimum set of key safe climate memes

    Dangerous climatechange is now

    Climatecatastrophe is

    coming unless.

    We need torestore a safe

    climate

    A safe climate isstill possible

    We must go ontoan emergency

    footing

    We need a supermajority of strong

    support

    We have very littletime to act

    Deliberative

    democracy betterthan dictatorship

    Scientific &

    technical solutionsare possible

    Political solutions

    are possible

    Humans have the

    needed psychologicalcapability

    Economic

    solutions arepossible

    Governance/admin solutions

    are possible

    Safe climatemobilisation must

    end up global

    Complex fastaction needs

    complex projectmanagement

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    3 part goal:(1) Stop our plunge into

    catastrophic climatechange, (2) back out of

    dangerous climatechange, and (3) restore a

    safe climate all atemergency speed.

    Solutions are still possible

    We cant single issuecampaign way to an

    emergency response

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    What sort of strategic challenge are we facing?

    Setting the climate goal

    The current impacts of climate change are already so severe and, ifcurrent trends continue, the future impacts will be so catastrophicthat the only sensible course is to commit to cooling the planet andrestoring a safe climate. To accomplish this, an o m a j o r t r a d e -o f f s

    approach is needed. This approach is very different from theapproaches that lie at the heart of political cultures that are currentlydominant in Australia and many other countries (ie. everything is tobe traded-off against everything in the ALP, the environment andsocial wellbeing is to be traded off against the resource economy inthe Liberal/National Coalition.

    Campaigning for the climate goal

    What is needed is a very large and fast physical restructuring of theeconomy. The forces of resistance are considerable, motivated,

    organised and powerful but they represent no more than 30% of theeconomy. Since the economy can function perfectly well without thefossil fuel and other climate-change-causing economic players, theforces driving and attempting to lock in climate change are ultimatelyin a weak position, despite their current power.

    The effort to restore a safe climate has been left so late that it willnow have to be undertaken in emergency mode. Business-as-usualand even reform-as-usual will have to be abandoned for the durationof the transition. However, the balance of evidence suggests that itis not essential to fundamentally change the political economicsystem in order to have an effective safe climate transition. Most

    dominant types of political economy could have viable safe-climate-compatible variants. But getting these variants in place is not atrivial task.

    Large-scale, fast change cannot be accomplished with slimmajorities and weak support. But delivering a safe climate economyfast means that there cant be major trade-offs that induce delay orprevent the safe climate economy being delivered in full. S o w e n e e d t o r a p i d l y c r e a t e a c l i m a t e c h a n g e c u l t u r e o f i n c l u s i v e n e s s

    t h a t a v o i d s m a j o r t r a d e -o f f s .

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    First steps

    This diagram shows a limited set of first action steps, placed in a sequence, that are designed to generate the resources and capacity for amore ambitious set of subsequent next steps, and so on in this way, until we can complete the full program set out in the table following.

    A bigger strategic picture

    Questions Strategy conclusions Discussion Spin-off projects

    A. The climate crisis and the science

    1. What has grabbed ourattention?

    The earth is already suffering fromdangerous climate change and is

    heading into catastrophic climatechange.

    Resources& capacityassessment

    Materials

    development

    F as t

    r ec r ui tment

    in Australia

    Globalnetworking

    Grassrootsr i ppl e&

    s atur ati onmobi l i s at i on

    El i te

    mobilisationaround the neweconomy

    Activation ofpublicintellectuals /opinion leaders

    Science &safety review

    & education

    Engagement ofpeople on the

    right

    Engagement ofpeople on theleft

    Campaigningfor anemergencyrestoration ofa safe climate

    Engagement ofpeople in themiddle

    Solutions

    development:- technology- industrystructure- economics- psychology- politics- etc.

    Note:Once initiated, these activities are continued for as long as necessary.

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    5. How on earth can it bepractical to adopt a moredemanding climate target,when society has alreadyfailed to achieve a lesschallenging target?

    There are two key arguments:

    the first is that there is no pointin pursuing goals that, ifachieved, would still createintolerable conditions;

    the second is that we arebecoming aware that the

    impact of climate change willbe much more severe thanwas once expected, sopragmatists at some stage, willstart to argue that a toughergoal is actually more practicaland so more motivating.

    A team needs to elaborateand document thesearguments.

    An outreach team needs tospread the documentedarguments around andengage with people who

    have their doubts about thevalue of having a big goal.

    B. Big picture solutions s o l u t i o n s t o m a t c h t h e p r o b l e m

    1. Do we need to engage inworld action?

    It is critical to have effectivephysical action across the globe.But political traction will need to bebuilt at the national level. Tospeed up this process we need tohelp spread the safe climate goalto every nation.

    Climate is a global phenomenon and there isno country with an economy big enough tohave the needed world impact. All of the bigeconomies need to be involved, and most ofthe other economies. As there is no effectiveprocess of global governance, strong globalcommitments will only arise if there is apowerful national-level commitment. Oncenational-level commitment grows strongenough in the worlds largest economies(China, US, Europe?) they might end upcoercing the rest of the world into action.

    We need a team to spreadthe safe climate memeglobally to create anexperts/volunteers pool andto begin national safeclimate programs and weneed to gather data onclimate impacts (current andanticipated) in every region.

    2. What should we do aboutthe global-level

    negotiations?

    We need to create a stronginternational alliance of countries,

    and sub-national areas that arethe most threatened and/or themost committed to drive the safeclimate approach.

    The current international negotiations will keepputtering along until a critical mass of powerful

    countries decides to push global action. Butwe need to get the safe climate approachtaken up by the most vulnerable nations, sothat the goals of climate action arereorientated towards restoring a safe climate.

    We need a team to promotethe safe climate goal with

    the most vulnerablestates/areas and with themost climate progressivestates and areas toencourage the formation ofan international safe climatealliance.

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    3. How can we get a safeclimate restoration atemergency speed?

    We need to get support for aneconomic transformation using amode that is analogous to anholistic wartime mobilisation.

    An emergency speed restoration of the climaterequires a coordinated rebuilding of theeconomy. This can only be done as a wholepackage and in the end this cannot beachieved through dozens or hundreds ofindependent campaigns.

    As in the lead up to WW2,preparatory planning needsto be done to work out howbest to run a holisticemergency speed economictransformation. (This couldbe begun independently

    and be taken up bygovernment and other majorparties later.)

    C. Campaigning for a safe climate

    1. What will be the emotionaldriver of a safe climaterestoration effort?

    The core emotional driver is thecombined knowledge of:(a) the full implications (for selfand others) of the impacts ofextreme weather events andcurrent climate transformations,(b) the human causation of the

    climate change; and(c) the opportunity to largely solvethe climate problem throughclimate restoration.

    The current international climate negotiationsare focused on measures that leave much ofthe climate problem in place but that place anupper limit on the severity of the catastrophethat we face. The promise of the safe climaterestoration approach is that it can preventmost of the anticipated impacts if action is

    taken at full scale at emergency speed,starting as soon as possible.

    We needs teams to workaway systematically, andindependently of thepolitical campaigning, tobuild awareness of (a)extreme weather eventsand climate transformationsand (b) the potential toprevent most of theanticipated ongoing impactsthrough climate restoration.

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    2. Is there anything thatcampaigners can do toincrease their chance ofsuccess compared to thepast?

    It is likely that greater success canbe achieved if resources arestrategically concentrated oncomplementary interventions tooverdetermine the results fromengagement with each targetperson, community, organisation

    or network.

    Resource poor campaigns tend to spreadresources thinly and allocate them just to asingle intervention that is believed to be thebest of all the options on offer. However, thebook Influencerby Joe Grenny & co-auuthorsintroduces the idea ofo v e r d e t e r mi n i n g results by applying multiple complementary

    interventions aimed at the same target. Theauthors research indicates that success ratesjump much more than would be expected bythe additional effort. Since success tends tobreed success, it is likely that better program-wide results can be achieved by concentratingresources to allow the o v e r d e t e r mi n i n g of theresults for each target.

    Research teams need to beset up to investigate how toapply the overdeterminationmethod to commoncampaign strategies & tasksand to spread what islearned.

    3. How should we get anational safe climatetransformation going?

    A national safe climate programneeds to be aimed at both :

    the grass roots

    the new economy elites (that

    control at least 70% of theeconomy) and that are muchmore powerful than the fossilfuel industry and its allies provided the new economyelites get organised.

    To make massive change in a very short time(where it is the physical output that counts)isnt going to be possible with an approach thatrelies only on either elites or on the grassroots.

    Either way, there wont be enough support andtoo much opposition because the oldeconomy forces will recruit whichever sectorsthe safe climate movement neglects. If ourstrategy is only grassroots it will be easy forthe elites to be spooked by the bottom upradicalism. If it is only the new economy elitesthat are recruited, the old economy forces willbecome democrats to outflank their eliteopponents (the Murdoch media and others didthis already to get the Abbott Government inpower).

    Teams need to be set up tobegin mobilisation of thegrassroots for a safe climateapproach.

    Teams need to be set up tomobilise for a safe climateapproach among the elitesthat are not irrevocably tiedto the old fossil fueleconomy focussing onbusiness, professionals,media, the public service,academia, the sciences,etc.

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    4. Past experience withcampaigning is that themost successful approach isto go for very tangible,specific goals. How wouldyou apply this to thepromotion of a safe climate

    restoration?

    For the unprecedented problemthat we face on the climate, wewill have to develop a new modeof campaigning to promote a fullpackage of measures driven bysomething like a World War 2emergency economic mobilisation.

    Traditional single issue campaignsat a more concrete level will needto complement rather competewith the campaign for amultifaceted emergency response.

    There are too many changes, needed toourgently for a safe climate restorations to bedrivenonlyby issue-specific concretecampaigns (read the BZE reports to get a feelfor this). We will have to find a way tocampaign directly for the whole safe climateemergency package by campaigning for a safe

    climate emergency program. This could beaccompanied by other particular, concretecampaigns but not too many otherwise theenergy to press for an emergency responsewill be diluted below the level needed forsuccess.

    A team needs to developthe concept of a campaignfor the emergencyrestoration of a safe climate.

    Teams need to spread thiscampaign in Australia andglobally.

    5. Can we just focus on theprogressive forces insociety?

    We must mobilise for the fullstrength safe climate package onthe right, as well as the middleand the left. The support deficiton the right is currently our mostserious weakness.

    It depends what you mean by progressive. Ifby that you mean left wing then - no. The leftwing of society is not powerful enough by itselfto make the needed changes As discussedabove we will need to have a s u p e r ma j o r i t y (at least 70%?) ofstrongsupport to make the

    changes big enough and fast enough and as apackage. You cannot get a s u p e r ma j o r i t y with just the left. You need most of the middleand a big slice of the right as well.

    We need a specialist teamto build support for a safeclimate restoration amongpeople who usually voteLiberal*/National/rightindependents/Palmer Party

    etc.

    * - See the definition ofL i b e r a l .

    6. How can we get the rightwing of society on-sidewhen we have to stop theeconomy growing to protectthe planet? The right wontsupport that will they?

    We can maximise the chance ofgetting s u p e r ma j o r i t y support fora safe climate restoration and fullstrength sustainability if we workfor 100% decoupling of theeconomy from environmentaldamage, rather than promotingpolicies aimed at eliminatingeconomic growth in all and everycircumstance.(For detailed explanation of 100%decoupling see Sutton 2013b inreferences).

    It is a fetish to make economic growth theprime goal of society. Our primary goalsshould be human wellbeing, the survival of thefull diversity of life and social andenvironmental sustainability. Becauseeconomic growth is so poorly correlated withwellbeing and also with its opposite (if allpossible economic development models areconsidered), it is also a fetish to be committedto ending economic growth in all situations.We need an alternative approach that iscommitted to achieving full strengthsustainability, but is agnostic about economicgrowth.

    A team needs to developthe case for 100%decoupling of the economyand the mechanisms for itsachievement.

    A team needs to engagepeople across the political

    spectrum with this strategy.

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    7. Is there any way to primethe community so that ourmobilisation efforts can bemore effective?

    We need to encourage known andpotential opinion leaders toengage publicly with the need fora safe climate and with thestrategies for getting there.

    People tend to respond better if they can seeevidence of leadership and strategicdirections.

    A team needs to find andactivate public intellectualsand potential/actual opinionleaders.

    8. Should we try to engageeverywhere or do we need

    to concentrate our safeclimate campaigning efforts at least initially?

    We need to mobilisesystematically and in depth in

    each country, starting from theareas that are most prospective we also need to gather the easilyavailable supporters andresources from everywhere as fastas possible so that our initialresources are built up rapidly.

    We need to build a strong safe climatecampaign base using the ripple model, but we

    also need to have action across the wholecommunity so that there are few areas wherethe anti-climate ideas can take a total grip onlocal societies, and we need to move politicsback to the middle away from the extremist oldeconomy position. And we need to rapidlygather individuals who most readily get whatwe are on about so we can maximise earlyresources. This reach out will be most efficientif it is done using a c o mp r e h e n s i v e c o n n e c t s t r a t e g y .

    We need teams to carry outaf a s t r e c r u i t me n t sweep

    over the whole population starting wherever theresources are available

    We need teams to maintainand build a modest intensitypresence everywhere afterthe first fast pass.

    We need teams to run asystematicr i p p l e / s a t u r a t i o n mo b i l i s a t i o n

    starting from the best areasand moving out along the

    lines of greatest support foreach political alignment,until everywhere is covered.

    9. Are there any campaignsthat need to be run that donot need to be labelled assafe climate?

    People should be encouraged toadopt a two campaign model one campaign would be to supportthe adoption of the full emergencypackage, and the other campaignwould be one that appealsparticularly to each individual.

    Pro-renewables and anti-fossil fuel campaignscan usefully run along side the core safeclimate emergency campaign. There can ofcourse be more than a total of two campaignsrunning at any one time. But what the twocampaign concept means is that eachindividual is encouraged to adopt two theemergency campaign plus one other.

    A team needs to assesswhich other campaigns canwork most synergisticallywith the core safe climateemergency campaign.

    A team needs to promotethe two campaignapproach.

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    10. Is there any point in workingto elect somewhat moresympathetic governments,even if they are not yetcommitted to a safe climategoal?

    The safe climate movement needsto support efforts to campaign fora shift from old economygovernments to even half-waybetter state/territory and nationalgovernments - not as an end initself, but as a step towards

    getting governments that are fullycommitted to creating, atemergency speed, a safe climateeconomy.

    The Abbott Government has shown that itdoes make a huge difference to shift from ahalf-hearted government to one that is fullycommitted to the old economy and thedestruction of the foundations of the new (safeclimate) economy.

    Teams are needed to workto mobilise the communityto work for the urgent defeatof hard core old economygovernments. If existingteams exist they should besupported. If resources are

    scarce efforts in the mostprospective states/territoriesshould be supported.

    D. Building capacity

    1. What resources are alreadyavailable on which to buildthe safe climate approach?

    It is vital to accurately assess theresources that are or could beavailable at each stage of thedevelopment of the safe climateprogram.

    A team needs to assess,periodically, the resourcesthat could be available foreach stage of safe climateactivity.

    2. How important will network

    dynamics be to oursuccess?

    We should concentrate effort to

    ensure that whole networksbecome committed to the safeclimate approach, rather thanspreading very thin across manynetworks at a time.

    Social networks tend to strongly influence

    peoples sense of reality, shaping how easypeople think tasks will be and what arelegitimate views to hold.

    A team needs to review the

    literature on networkdynamics and write a paperon the subject to inform thesafe climate campaigns.

    3. What are the implications ofnetwork dynamics within theclimate/environmentmovement?

    We need to get the movement of awhole state to switch over to theparadigm of campaigning for therestoration of a preindustrial safeclimate at emergency speed(Victoria might be the best initial

    option?)

    (see argument immediately above) A team needs to develop aplan for enabling theVictorian climate movementas-a-whole (or close to) tosupport a safe climaterestoration goal.

    4. How can we best attractmoney to support the safeclimate campaign in theearly stages?

    Initially, we should give priority totargeting individuals for significantdonations.

    For a challenging program like restoring a safeclimate, it will be easier to find individuals withmoney who will be willing to donate rather thangoing for groups or corporates.

    Teams focusing onoutreach should encourageindividuals to makesignificant donations.

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    5. Where should we put mostof our energy initially?Should it be put intoconvincing existing groupsand activists to take up thesafe climate approach orinto recruiting new activists

    and creating new groups?

    We should concentrate on buildinga good core of groups at the heartof the safe climate movement before putting a lot of effort intoworking for policy change inexisting groups.

    Getting people to disengage from currentcommitments or modes of action is hard when the new approach is not yet proven andstrongly supported. It is probably better tocreate new purpose-built groups with newactivists. Later more and more effort can beput into helping existing groups and activists to

    take on a safe climate paradigm.(It may nevertheless be useful to engage earlyin the piece in encouraging some existinggroups to take on a safe climate approach inorder to gain experience to inform the work ofpurpose-built safe climate groups.)

    A team needs to figure outwhat a minimum core ofgroups would be for thesafe climate movement.

    We need to concentrate onbuilding this core to thepoint of viability.

    Once the core isestablished, then teams cantake on the job of helpingexisting groups to adopt thesafe climate paradigm.

    6. Do we know what it wouldlook like to campaign for therestoration of a preindustrialsafe climate at emergencyspeed?

    We have to flesh out what it wouldlook like to lead and campaign fora safe climate restoration and wethen need to develop thenecessary skills with as manyactivists as possible.

    A lot of will to take action is built on theconfidence that comes from having thenecessary skills.

    We need a team to figureout what it looks like to leadand campaign for a safeclimate restoration.

    We need a team to trainpeople in these leadership

    and campaigning skills.(This could include helpingexisting campaigns toreorientate.)

    7. Given that the safe climatemovement is building from avery small base, whatstrategies can be used tobuild capacity?

    We need a ramping up approachto structuring our overall strategy to reflect available resources(starting with very little) andinclude the steady build up ofresources and capacity over time.

    The2 0 mi l e ma r c h concept developed by JimCollins & Morten Hansen in the book G o o d t o Great is a key method for handling a steadyramp up process.

    We need a team to developa strategy for ramping upand get some level ofshared buy-in on thepriorities (allowing forrevision)

    The rationale behind the table is being developed through the book Transforming the Odds. The current table of contents/are at:http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/Transforming-the-Odds/TtO-Table-of-contents.htm

    http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/Transforming-the-Odds/TtO-Table-of-contents.htmhttp://www.green-innovations.asn.au/Transforming-the-Odds/TtO-Table-of-contents.htm
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    Definitions

    comprehensive connect strategy means reaching out to thepublic to let them know about all the options for engaging withthe safe climate restoration goal through all the organisationsand projects that are active (not just the organisation organisingthe specific outreach effort).

    elites means people who control, manage or strongly influencehow society operates. Elites are very rarely monolithic. In thecontext of climate, it is worth thinking about elites in terms ofhow they currently orientate around the old environmentally-unsustainable economy and the new sustainable economy, orwhat that orientation might be in the future.

    fast recruitment means a quickly spreading mobilisation ofpeople who are already aware and onside but are not well-linked and activated.

    Liberal(capitalised) refers to the Liberal Party of Australia aparty of the right, similar to the Canadian Conservatives, USRepublicans and UK Conservatives. The term does not meanliberal as it applies to politics in North America (ie centre left).

    no major trade-offs means an approach to problem solvingwhere intense creative effort is put into developing solutionsthat avoid trade-offs on major issues. Trade-offs are confinedto less important matters.

    overdetermine means having more determining factors than

    appears to be the minimum necessary.

    ripple mobilisation means a mobilisation strategy where the firsteffort starts deliberately in the areas with the greatest supportand then ripples out to areas of lower and lower support. Therationale for starting with the areas of greatest support is toaccess the people and other resources needed to support thework to figure out how to win support from the less engaged or

    the more hostile. Another crucial advantage of starting in theareas of greatest support, is that these communities are theones most likely to support a full scale climate emergencyprogram.

    safe climate means a climate where global averagetemperatures, ocean heat content and ocean acidity are atpreindustrial levels selected as optimal for all people, all speciesand the maintenance of civilisation (for detailed explanation seeSutton 2013a in references).

    saturation mobilisation means a mobilisation strategy to getoverwhelming support in a locality or network. This strategyforces us to understand and relate to the full human diversity ineach area or network. It also has the advantage of creating, inthe end, a very robust commitment because of reinforcingnetwork effects.

    super majority means a large majority, well over 51%, forexample 70% or more.

    20 mile march is a metaphor to describe endeavours where

    those involved commit to a steady workload at the upper end oftheir ability. Management research has found that adopting a20 mile march approach generally produces much betterresults than a cyclic boom and collapse model of operating.See: Collins & Mortens book G o o d t o G r e a t.

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    First published:May 2014

    The most up-to-date version is available online at:http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/RSTI/2014_Strategy-for-discussion_safe-climate.pdf

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    About RSTI Inc.

    Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation Inc (RSTI) wasfounded in late 2011 to develop strategies to initiate the emergencyspeed restoration of a safe climate and sustainability in general.

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