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Not an environmental problem, A social justice problem with environmental causes
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Climate Changenot an environmental problem,
a social justice problem with environmental causes
Ilias Bartolini@iliasbartolini
Oct 2013
4https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_David_Keeling
Charles David Keeling
8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius
15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius
Temperature on earthshould be… -18˚C !?!
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Greenhouse efect
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Gas T
Water vapor (H2O) + 30 ˚C
Carbon dioxide (CO2) + 2/4 ˚C
Methane (CH4) + 0.5 ˚C
Greenhouse efect
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Modeling climate system
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/images/ocp2003/ocpfy2003-fg3-3.htm
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Modeling climate system
http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/breakthroughs/climate_model/modeling_schematic.html
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http://www.science.org.au/reports/climatechange2010.pdf
The future?
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VULNERABILITY
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Less food produced. Some estimate an aggregate fall of at least 10%
https://secure.fickr.com/photos/cgiarclimate/9687145368/
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Up to 20 million people in low-lying Bangladesh are at risk from rising sea levels in the coming decades
https://secure.fickr.com/photos/aftab/152945444/
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There's no compensation for the disappearance of our country
- Tuvalu's UNFCC representative
https://secure.fickr.com/photos/oxfamaustralia/8117764040/
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15% - 37% of 1103 known endemic plant and animal species will be
committed to extinction by 2050
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_toad
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Disappearance of our natural species is an irreversible event
- Golden Toad last seen on May 15, 1989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_toad
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"The impacts of climate change are not evenly distributed - the poorest countries and people will sufer earliest and most"
- Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
Pawel Kuczynski
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Per capita GHG emissions(excluding land use change)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GHG_per_capita_2000_no_LUC.svg
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Per capita CO2 emissions(including land use change)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2_responsibility_1950-2000.svg
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US CHG emissions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2_responsibility_1950-2000.svg
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Our habits
https://secure.fickr.com/photos/24460199@N07/2316497297/
https://secure.fickr.com/photos/24460199@N07/2316497297/
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Our habits
https://secure.fickr.com/photos/24460199@N07/2316497297/
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Our habits
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We are not equally
responsible
We are not equally
afected
http://www.davidrevoy.com/article58/making-of-yin-yang-of-world-hunger
46Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math – 350.org
$0
for dumping greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere
47Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math – 350.org
$0
for dumping greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere
...for the last 100-ish years
48Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math – 350.org
$440,000
for lobbing US congress
49Pawel Kuczynski & Do the math – 350.org
$440,000
for lobbing US congress...every day!
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“hey! it is more expensive for us”
“you should commit and not cheat on your emissions!”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“but you polluted for hundreds of years!”
“now is our turn, we need to develop our country”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“and we are an exporting economy...
you are the consumer thatis benefiting from
our emissions!”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“you should not betoo strict on us...amazon is the
green lung of earth”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“hey, keep calm!”“...there's an interesting green
economy business here”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“Don't be too harsh... btw I still have some
cheap oil to sell”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“Don't be too harsh... btw I still have some
cheap oil to sell”
“Me too!”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“Don't be too harsh... btw I still have some
cheap oil to sell”
“Me too!”
“And we got gas!”
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Climate politics 101
Worldmapper.org
“While you keep discussing...our country is going todisappear under sea”
64NASA - http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
65NASA - http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Tragedy of the commons
"is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting
independently and rationally according to each
one's self-interest"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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So how do they take decisions?
https://secure.fickr.com/photos/johnia/2355118699/
Consensus!
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Inaction advocates and skeptics
● Make the problem uncertain● Make it just an environmental problem● Make the solution look expensive● Tell that "we need an international treaty" as precondition
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Adrian Schiegl – Fragile Situations
“Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientifc certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-efective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”
- Precautionary principleUN Framework Convention on Climate Change
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“Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity. It threatens to undo 50 years of our development work and it will impact the poor in the greatest sense.”
- Ban Ki MoonSecretary-General of the United Nations
Adrian Schiegl – We will pay back later
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"The inescapable challenges of the early 21st century:sustainability and resilience, and the interconnected challenges of energy, water, food and climate"
- Sir John BeddigtonUK's chief scientifc adviser
Adrian Schiegl – We will pay back later
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Thank you!
...and feedback please! :)
https://my.thoughtworks.com/groups/climate-change
https://my.thoughtworks.com/groups/environmentaljustice
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