Unless we submit these to critical scrutiny, no change in coping with climate change can occur. They mobilize the values with which we think and argue about threats, such as global climate change. They frame some actors as reasonable, making some scenarios meaningful and credible, while they display others as not credible or even irrelevant. These cultural capacities are built on the great narratives of Western culture, and they set up the rules of the political debate. The problem is, we argue, that modern Western democracies are trapped within their cultural capacities with which they design policy solutions. Why are we failing to change the system of governance, even though we already can foresee the devastating impact of continuing down this road? The failure to find a solution is not rooted in either a lack of knowledge or a lack of resources. Modern Civilization cannot organize (or reorganize) itself to avert a massive extinction of fauna and flora, the melting of the polar ice caps, and the associated thermal disaster that ultimately would have having grim consequences for the whole planet. Reading these sweeping proclamations and listening to the toothless talk of global action reveals a bitter truth. Many politicians then state, in an self-important and grave tone, that altering our now-established course of human activity would be too complex. Some politicians deny climate change, while others claim it as natural and inevitable, criticizing any actions to stop it as too radical or even irrational. Their advice to us was, in a nutshell, to change how society functions and especially to stop deferring to the interests of industry and capital at the expense of humanity.ĭespite such advice, and despite the increasingly worrying tone in which climate change and its estimated effects are portrayed, the governance of policies that could reduce climate change has continued unchanged. To divert the deadly course on which we have sent the Earth, we have to immediately take the actions that experts and activists called for decades ago. Recent heat waves accompanied by massive droughts already negatively impact nature, agricultural production, and our well-being. The effects of climate change are already visible, and Europe is no exception in that regard. The poor, marginalized and disadvantaged will suffer most - Africa and India, for instance, will be subject to massive and deadly flooding and drought. Unless we slow that rate, no one will be safe from the consequences of climate change. The latest scientific analysis gives us just twelve years to limit global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100. The threat of climate change has been hanging over us for some time however, the 2018 UN report suggests that action is urgently needed to avert disaster.
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