Climate Emergency Forum Ali Hashemi What To Do

Climate Emergency Forum Ali Hashemi

What To Do 1. Build a Mass Movement 2. Build Shared Understanding 3. Start with “Easy” Items

1. 2. 3. 4. Tell The Truth Act Now Just Transformation Beyond Politics

Tell the Truth https: //www. footprintnetwork. org/2019/04/24/humanitys-ecological-footprint-contracted-between-2014 -and-2016/ We Are In A Climate AND Ecological Emergency

Tell the Truth - Ecocide https: //www. theguardian. com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970 -major-report-finds https: //www. wwf. org. uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018

Act Now • 1 year to significantly change trajectory • 11 years to achieve demonstrable gains https: //www. globalcarbonproject. org/carbonbudget/19/visualisations. htm

Beyond Politics History of Failure

Beyond Politics Citizen Assembly / People’s Assembly

Just Transition https: //bigthink. com/strange-maps/walled-world

Just Transition Decolonize • Wet’suwet’en, Grassy Narrows, Chemical Valley • Shift Away from Exploit, Extract • Consumerism Ideology is Dead-End • Overproduction & Overconsumption

Asymptotic Trajectory Infinite Trajectory Growth vs Capacity 1 (Sustainabilist Future) 2 Human / Economic Growth Earth System Limit (Biological Capacity) Degrowth Trajectory 3 https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=q. Pb_0 JZ 6 -Rc https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=oy-94 Ig. Dz 3 w https: //www. pnas. org/content/115/21/5409 https: //www. overshootday. org/ https: //www. oecd. org/eco/growth/scenarios-for-the-world-economy-to-2060. htm https: //openresearch-repository. anu. edu. au/bitstream/1885/66463/8/01_Steffen_GREAT%20 ACCELERATION_2015. pdf Collapse Trajectory 4

Advertising manufacture demand Population elect accountable? subsidize lobby consume Snapshot of global complex sociotechnical system Industrial Agriculture cause “Easy” Solution 1. 2. 3. Climate Catastrophe https: //www. iisd. org/faq/unpacking-canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ https: //www. imf. org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Global-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Remain-Large-An-Update-Based-on-Country-Level-Estimates-46509 https: //www. statista. com/statistics/236943/global-advertising-spending/ Government consume Fossil Fuel Extraction cause Ecocide

Advertising manufacture demand • Manufactures demand for consumption • Eating meat is a social construct • $500 B / year • • 30% of emissions Destroys environment Destroys soil Consumes oil “Easy” Solution 1. 2. 3. 4. Population consume Industrial Agriculture cause Climate Catastrophe https: //www. statista. com/statistics/236943/global-advertising-spending/ https: //ideas. repec. org/p/ags/aaea 13/150413. html https: //www. iisd. org/faq/unpacking-canadas-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ https: //www. imf. org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Global-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Remain-Large-An-Update-Based-on-Country-Level-Estimates-46509 elect accountable? $300 M/year consume Government subsidize • $3. 3 B/year direct lobby • $43 B/year indirect Fossil Fuel Extraction cause Ecocide

Take Away Questions • What options exist when government is not responsive? • What does an economy not based on infinite growth look like? • What activities do we stop TODAY? • What do we transition? • How would Canada accommodate 100 M climate refugees?

Observations • Technology will likely be part of the solution, but won’t be the solution • We will succeed because of cultural and normative shifts, not because of technological innovation

Adaptation • Shallow Adaptation • Build Higher Seawalls • Carbon Sequestration* • Transformative Adaptation • Completely Economy • Change Agriculture • Deep Adaptation • Adapt if transformation fails https: //youtu. be/XMz. TWw. Tw_k. Q https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=uz. Cx. FPzd. O 0 Y https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=P 4 uckj 3 db. UU

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