E - Super Wicked Problems

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E - Wicked Problems
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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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