Dear all,
thanks for your replies; they made me quite thoughtful.
Nobody of the activists say, that they have the solution. It´s a fire
alarm. Its a cry out to stop the normal routine of life and to realize
the climate emergency.
The specific things that need to be done are plentiful. Other experts
have solutions for the problem - in every area such as mobility, food,
building, shopping, ... and yes, why not also cooling.
All those different solutions are not mentioned by the Last Generation,
because it is not their task. We are a siren.
But there is one big request: We want a citizen´s congregation that
works out the solutions together with scientists, economists, etc pp. We
need to make a plan together that citizens understand and are part of.
That can absolutely include cooling.
You know as well as I do, that many people did environmental education
for many decades. Many of us activists have done a lot of other things
before and continue doing so. I have given hundreds of talks since my
training with Al Gore 2007. I quit my scientific career on grassland
birds; I loved my work soo much!, to have more time for education. I did
school projects, habve a traveling exhibition with fotografs made by
Gary Braasch, am politically active, ...
Of course it is clear that the problem is not just "climate" but our
entire relationship to nature, our decoupling from nature, our
misunderstanding that we are better and independent, free of the ties of
nature..instead of being a content and happy integral part we destroy
it. How insane!
But it is too late. Education is too slow. I still give talks, I still
go in schools, I still am politically active, but it is not enough.
Of course gluing will not solve the problem. But it tries to wake people
up o the emergency we are in.
I think one huge problem is that so many groups work parallel and
consider their one approach as the one needed. We need all of them! We
need the sirenes, we need to get out of fossil fuels as quickly as
possible, we need to completely change our lifestyle and not use up more
CO2 than our budget allows, we need to protect and restore nature,
minimize pollutants especially nitrogen,...and so much more.
So instead of calling one group to be wrong we need to build up on each
other, enforce our strength by supporting each other.
Please consider showing solidarity with the Last Generation. Calling
them criminal, sending them into jail while those who destroy our future
are free is just wrong!
We all are important. Life is so beautiful. We will only be able to
protect it when we all support each.
With deeply concerned greetings,
Maiken
Am 27.06.2023 um 11:04 schrieb Oeste:
Hi Maiken
To my opinion the main problem we are confronted seems to be the
widespread stupidity concerning scientific facts. Also politicans and
journalists and even many scientists I would not except from this
definition. What is the reason for this? Our science is devided in
many branches and ofte the horizon of people ends at the border of a
scientific branch. To my opinion we have an enormous amount of
academic grade and good educated people on the globe, much much more
than during the time of Humboldt and Goethe but possibly less with the
interdisciplinary experience of these Scientists or of James Lovelock,
a scientist of the modern area
Hence this is the main problem because the climate problem is in
reality a multidisciplinary problem: if we want to restore the climate
in a sustainable manner as to gain back the climate situation of the
pre-industrial time we also must restore in parallel also the
ecosystems of the whole Earth. According to the complex cross-linked
net between land-based ecosystems, ocean ecosystems, sediment
ecosystems, weathering processes. It needs a deep understanding of the
multiple links between carbon circle, bio-weathering processes,
geochemistry. Our Climate depends on all these many mutual influences
and hence is under control of all these influences. In principle our
habitat is a huge ecosystem-controlled organism. This picture has been
described first by James Lovelock with the term "Gaia Principle". The
metabolism of this organism has been permanent developed from the
begin of life in the Hadean until now. The mass of living mass has
increased since these times to a maximum in the preindustrial
presence. During the last 250 years mankind reduced the living mass in
the oceans by more than 90% and also reduced also the living mass on
the continents by deforestation probably by more than 50%. Additional
the combustion of fossil fuels for energy, steel, aluminium, copper,
cement production and transport produced lots of greenhouse substances
as like as CO2, methane, black soot.
We need to build up a new branch transcending science which tries to
decipher the complex global life-controlled metabolism as to use the
right tools for the short-term and long-term restoration of this
metabolism. It seems necessary to start with both: short- and
long-terme restoration measures. There are some tools as short term
measures in the engineers toolbox which might find use in said
restoration work. Some others of the advertised solutions might worsen
the problem.
But to do the necessary research, lab and field-testing needs money.
Governments, politicans and even the Green have ignored the problem.
Since more than 20 years we developed models and measures for this
purpose but got only little help by private sponsors not any help from
government or parties. To my opinion the politicans will ask and pay
for solutions not before the water level will have risen enough until
the streets of coastal towns become flooded.
As you see, education and information of the broad level of the
population, journalists, politicans and even of the scientific
community is an necessity. Any sticking of yourself and your friends
on the streets will not solve the problem
Franz Dietrich Oeste
gM-Ingenieurbuero
Am 26.06.2023 um 20:45 schrieb Maiken Winter:
Hi dear all,
may I ask you... since all the writing and talking didn't help and we
are now close to the irreversible tipping points we know about for
years...what's your opinion about Science Rebellion and the Last
Generation? Do you consider to also become part of this movement (as
I am)?
It's horrible that we are so far into this catastrophe that even I
blockade streets.
Best,
Maiken
Ron Baiman <[email protected]> hat am 26.06.2023 18:28 CEST
geschrieben:
Thank you Renaud! I hope you don't mind my distributing this more
broadly as I think it's quite important!
Best,
Ron
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 10:27 AM Renaud de RICHTER
<[email protected]> wrote:
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-ocean-chartshere-humans-ecosystems-world.html
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