Dear Kate This is leaning toward the more imaginative side, but we have written a tourist guide to an imagined coastal city in a decarbonised Europe circa 2045, we call it ’Rough Planet Notterdam’. https://www.reinvent-project.eu/roughplanetguide
"The Rough Planet Guide declines to answer the question of “how do we make the decarbonisation transition happen?”, in favour of the question “how might we live in a successfully decarbonised Europe?” Thinking through the polyphony of the latter sheds new light on the former, not least because it makes it clear that there is more than one pathway to a post-fossil Europe. This book is not a prophecy or promise, but it is a possibility. This book is not optimistic, but it is hopeful. This book is a fiction… but it is built upon the best truths we could find during the four-year interdisciplinary work research work done by many people across Europe." Its free to download. Here is a recent blogpost https://www.rapidtransition.org/commentaries/tour-tomorrow-today-why-we-made-a-travel-guide-to-an-imaginary-future-city/ It deals with sectors like steel, plastic, meat, dairy and transport so there are some harder political economies below the surface in the book. cheers Johannes > 15 nov. 2020 kl. 18:40 skrev Kate O'NEILL <[email protected]>: > > Dear all - this is a rougher semester than usual in terms of finishing a > Global Environmental Politics course on a strong note. I was wondering if > anyone had any thoughts on an article, chapter or other resource that might > help round it out. I have a Biden and Climate/Paris piece and connecting > COVID to climate disasters/colonialism article, but I’m looking for a “next > ten years of global environmental politics” piece, and, more importantly, > something contemporary that might engage their imaginations in terms of > thinking into the future or more widely about the world (I know that’s vague > but I want to shift them out of their immediate stressful present if just for > a moment. Doesn't have to be rosy but something that isn’t doom and end of > the world). > > As always, send suggestions to me and I’ll compile for the list! > > All best to you all, > > Kate > > *************************************** > Kate O'Neill > Professor > Chair of the Society and Environment Division, > Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, > University of California at Berkeley > [email protected] > @kmoneill2530 > Website > WASTE (Polity Press, 2019) > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "gep-ed" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/596983B9-0F7C-4BC5-8461-25B6811FFF9A%40berkeley.edu. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/D6DB23E3-5DC2-48E6-A4F0-EB8BCFBB3253%40svet.lu.se.
