Vår psykologi får oss att strunta i offren för klimatförändringarna - Artikel av Billy Larsson Jag är leg psykolog och fil dr i psykologi. Har även läst miljöpsykologi. Är med i nätverken Framtidsrealisterna och Steg3, samt är initiativtagare till nätuppropet radikaliseraklimatpolitken.nu. Som psykolog är det både fascinerande och skrämmande att ta del av hur hotet om klimatförändringar hanteras. I tidskriften Nature i juni i år hävdar en grupp forskare att om ungefär femtio år kan medeltemperaturen på jorden vara högre än någonsin under den tid som det funnits människor på jorden. De flesta klimatforskare anser att utsläppen av växthusgaser måste börja minska under detta decennium. Oförmågan att hantera klimatfrågan innebär en moralisk kollaps gentemot kommande generationer. Enligt mig är förklaringarna psykologiska. Tanken att andra människor kommer att drabbas av mitt sätt att leva gör dock inte att vi självklart blir motiverade att förespråka åtgärder som minskar utsläppen av växthusgaser. Innebär det att situationen är hopplös?
Försökskaniner i ett monetärt experiment | Sverige Hur mycket här i världen finns i obegränsad mängd? Kockprogram på tv, sandkorn, kufiga youtubeklipp. Alla visserligen ymnigt förekommande företeelser, men obegränsade? Knappast. I andra sammanhang skulle någon som på fullt allvar säger sig kunna lösa ett problem genom att ur tomma intet trolla fram något i obegränsad mängd få en medkännande arm om ryggen och ett recept på medelsvag psykofarmaka. Om dessa herrars åtgärder finns det lika många åsikter som det finns ekonomer och politiker. Att centralbanker kan sänka värdet på pengar är något som Ben Bernanke själv var öppen med i ett tal år 2002. ”Den amerikanska staten har en teknik som kallas tryckpress (eller idag dess elektroniska motsvarighet), som gör det möjligt att producera så många dollar den vill till i princip ingen kostnad. Det han beskriver är inhemsk inflation, men även utanför USA:s gränser finns det miniräknare och människor med slutledningsförmåga. Idag verkar allt det glömt. Så vad händer? Och här börjar problemen.
Food security needs systemic change – Blog Food security needs systemic change I don’t know about you, but the closest I ever got to a Rubik’s Cube, shortly after it was first launched in 1974, was to handle one in a toy store. For me, it seemed insoluble – and many assumed it was, until persistent cubers discovered not just one way to crack the puzzle, but many. And the cube came to mind as I thought recently about the astonishingly complex global security challenge we now face. Back in the seventies we were challenged by a series of energy (or at least oil) crises, but now we see the energy security issue linking ever more tightly to food security, water security, climate security and so on. And all of this came to mind as I trawled through Appetite for Change, a new report from SustainAbility, backed by Nestlé, IBM and Sodexo. One thing I found surprising is just how unprofitable much of the food industry can be. Growing unease about food futures is driving some dramatic trends.
All in? In this seminar, Scott Barrett discussed, by using analogies from poker, the dilemmas of collaboration versus protecting individual interests. While all countries have accepted the collective need to avoid danger by limiting "global warming" to 2 degrees Celsius, the pledges states have made post-Copenhagen virtually guarantee that this target will be missed. "This is a puzzle," Barrett says, "but it can be explained once we disentangle the incentives for states to act collectively and individually. About Scott Barrett Scott Barrett is the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University in New York City. His research focuses on ways in which international cooperation can be promoted to address issues like climate change, disease eradication, and overfishing.
The Potential and Peril of Radical Innovation Nobody likes the status quo. It’s boring. The companies that we admire are radical. The problem is that radical innovation is rarely a prudent course. So what to do? The Business of Running a Business Most managers aren’t focused on innovation. At any given time there is an active crises going on. That’s why business schools teach good management principles. If you follow solid principles, chances are that you’ll do pretty well. Why Good Companies Fail Even companies who do the right things sometimes falter. What he found was that adhering to these time honored practices not only didn’t help them, they accelerated their demise. As incumbents continued to make their products better and better, they overshot what consumers really needed and the basis of competition changed. Incumbents would usually ignore these new markets because they still needed to keep their existing customers happy. The Difference between Radical Innovation and Revolutionary Breakthrough How Disruptors Get Disrupted
Peer-to-peer production and the coming of the commons Illustration: Andrzej Krauze ‘At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.’ Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy New words expressing new concepts usually indicate stirrings at other levels of reality. We are witnessing the emergence of a new ‘proto’ mode of production based on distributed, collaborative forms of organisation. Distributed production: who has control? The ecological and resource scarcity crisis makes the shift to economies of scope seem all but inevitable.
Emanuele Campiglio - Towards an Ecological Macroeconomics July 10, 2012 // By: Emanuele Campiglio A couple of weeks ago I attended the International conference on Ecological Economics, held in Rio de Janeiro just a few days before the Rio+20 UN Summit, where a few hundreds researchers have been presenting their work together with some high-level keynote speakers (Peter Victor, Mathis Wackernagel, William Rees, the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Ignacy Sachs and others). One of the most debated topics during sessions and informal discussions seemed to be the one nef has been intensively working on lately, that is Ecological Macroeconomics (otherwise termed Macroeconomics of sustainability). Apart from some pioneering work (such as the proposal to “green” the usual IS-LM textbook framework), macroeconomic theory has been ignoring wider environmental and social implications for many decades. Victor’s work has become exceptionally popular among researchers interested in sustainability issues. Issues Macroeconomics, Energy & Climate Change Close
(1) Who are TaskRabbit's major competitors Principal value drivers The principles of the circular economy offer not only a description of how it should work as a whole, but also an outline of specific sources of core economic value creation potential. The economics and comparative attractiveness of different circular setups (e.g., reuse versus remanufacturing versus recycling) can differ significantly for different products, components, or types of material, whether in a specific geography or segment of the (global) supply chain—all of which we spell out in the next chapter. Nevertheless, there are four simple principles of circular value creation that hold true. Power of the inner circle: In general, the tighter the circles are, the larger the savings should be in the embedded costs in terms of material, labour, energy, capital and of the associated rucksack of externalities, such as GHG emissions, water, or toxic substances. Power of circling longer: Power of cascaded use and inbound material/product substitution Download as PDF
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