E - Super Wicked Problems
A lot of discussion is around the theme of climate justice, but what is justice in a broken world with resource bottlenecks. Some people will live and some won’t. Justice would mean a lottery. But that’s not going to be how it works.
Climate activists should serve as the leading edge of the eco-leninist movement that is required
Climate change is about an epochal shift in our understanding of ourselves. We need a new sense of the human condition.
Climate is not a wicked or super-wicked problem - it’s something even more extreme - it’s a new tragic conditions
Current transformation of energy sources discussions are really a perpetuation of the status quo - it’s not the kind of transformation we’ll need
Hope is about something you want to happen, think has a chance of happening, but that you recognize might not happen
How many people will not ultimately be willing to contribute to biocide - it will be a small minority, but it needs to come to power in tnext 20 years
Humans are radically free to reinvent themselves and their surroundings
It’s going to take the kind of authenticity that we’ve seen from Greta and Extinction Rebellion, but enhanced by orders of magnitude
Kids realize their future is something no one is looking forward to, and they are being prepared by education for a world that will not exist
Land conscription for rewilding and food security is a topic whose time has come
Many organizations are looking at problems like climate change only through Type 1, 2, or 3 thinking
More authoritarianism is likely to happen
Need to find "easy to pull, hard to reverse levers"
Path-dependency is key to tackling climate change
People looking for hope often want to be told everything will be ok, but not everything will be ok
Radical re-localization will replace a lot of globalization
Super-wicked problems have 4 additional characteristics
The book argues for climate Leninism that will ruthlessly pursue the agenda of saving life
The climate transformation will require big changes from everything
The frame of emergency suggests that it is something that comes to an end - which doesn’t apply with climate change
The idea of an emergency makes climate change sound easier than it is
The odds are overwhelmingly against us, but humans are capable of bucking the odds
There are thousands of great examples we could use that we're ignoring because we're thinking about climate change as a Type 1, 2, or 3 problem
To face realitiy means to face loss of “ordinary hopes” and “magical thinking”
To look at a super-wicked problem can't use tools like cost-benefit analysis - they don't work
Tragic outcomes are inevitable - all we can hope to do is operate in the space between tragedy and catastrophe
We cannot step back from hope, but given the odds it has to be hope against hope
We have to give up hope for utopian solutions that involve simultaneously fixing all the world’s problems
We need to face how seemingly impossible the situation is
We should question assumption that we can hold on to our enlightenment values, and to do things that conform to our notions of morality
We’re shielding kids and students from the truty - they want to be told the truth
What he hopes for is the continuation of some form of viable biosphere and viable human civilization
What kinds of tools can we use for solving Type 4 environmental problems?
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I:CommunicationsChallenges
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S - Climate Change as Wicked Problem
S - Communicating Uncertainty and Risk
S - Communicating with Specific Audiences
S - Communicating With Humor
S - Communications How To for Climate Change
N - Climate Change as a Wicked Problem
N - Communicating Uncertainty
N - How To Communicate Climate Change
T - Interactive Tools and Visualizations
T - Visualizing Future Impacts
E - Climate Change as a Super Wicked Problem
E - Climate Change as Polarizing
E - Climate Communication Frames
E - Defining a wicked problem
E - Scenarios Through Storytelling
Visuals of “Wicked Problems”
V - Channels for Communicating Climate
2009 How climate change relates to everything else
Advanced policy design through policy mixes
Durable policies for a problem like climate change
Four Environmental Problem Conceptions
Why interpreting climate risks materiality is harder than it sounds
2012/4 Is it time to give up?
As the ultimate externality problem, with massive tragedy of the commons attributes
c. Decision makers have trouble with high probability high-impact events?
Can learn how to do workshops in this space at drawtoast.com
Characteristics of wicked problems
Feed-in tariffs for solar panels is a good example of successful path dependency
Given the political politicization of the climate change issue
Huge focus on market-driven mechanisms, and yet it's not working
In a group you start with a mess, that boils down - although many more nodes than individuals
In an era of limited budgets
Most drawings include both Nodes and Links, the elements of a systems model
Need to begin by thinking of the key features of the climate problem - a super-wicked problem
Obamacare's Public Option was impossible to reverse - too much public opposition
People also draw way more nodes
People draw the toast making exercise in ALL KINDS of ways
Tame problems vs. wicked problems
The simple act of visualizing and doing it over and over again results in remarkable results
There is a coalition exploring whether technology and market options can get us to 1.5 degree
There is a revolution in people collaboratively tackling their wicked problems
Type 1 requires sustainable yield solution
Type 2 Involves utility mazimization, e.g. cost-benefit analysis
Type 3 involves dispute resolution among multiple goals, values, etc.
Type 4 Win lose prioritization - you can't trade it off against other problems. You must give priority
We are all contributing to the problem
We've had a proliferation of policy tools and goals over the last 25 years
Why climate change is different as a political issue
With cards people draw more detailed and more logical nodes
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Solving Wicked and Super-Wicked Problems