“What if the climate is a fruit”
“Sometimes turn statements up and down on one’s world view and makes you think about. As it where to ”the banana is a berry”. While the other sentences that maybe should be perceived as controversial passes completely unnoticed. Where as if the ”problem of the environment and the climate”.”
“what if the banana is actually a berry?! And what if the problem is not the environment and the climate, but our extreme inability to relate to them?! Imagine if more of the more neutral statements would have a banana-is-a-berry-power and therefore get us to think about.”
“Think about the never-ending flood of letters and confessions to the grandchildren and future generations in our ledarsidor does not lead to emissions of greenhouse gases.”
“what if someone, somewhere else, in another time and civilization, endeavor to read a bunch of these articles and notes that: ”it was at least a sustainable and conscious generation, the last”. Or if the tracks of these articles are written out much earlier, in pure frustration that nothing was done, or just because you didn’t like about the articles.”
“Think about the concept of ”sustainability” and the culture that was created around it turned out to cause the company, after centuries of blind growth-focus, found new ways to sell new things to nyfrälsta old customers. All of the growth names, but with the sustainable label. With the result that the real effective action which is not based on the consumption did not materialize.”
“what if it recognized significant consumer power in reality it is not contained in the vicinity of enough förändringspotential, and instead led to far too many in his corner drew his straw to the stack. They are collected separately at source, bought organic candy and talked engagingly of the podcasts on the klimatångest they thus subdued, instead of to together accomplish something else, something sustainable in a completely different, truly ecological significance.”
“what if we are so caught up in the economic language, that today we can not think about sustainability without involving the economy and that it is therefore not sustainable.”
“what if it is so sad that the economic language has found its way so deeply into our consciousness that it has become the only weapon available to him when we are going to try to tackle the climate crisis that konsumtionsekonomin have created.”
“what if the gaps between the rich and the poor continues to increase, and not the ends justified it, despite all the falling crumbs from the rich cakes, which it had not done on the rich not so much cakes.”
“what if so much of the climate debate is about the rise of the klimatförnekande right-wingers and klimatnegativa measures and their speeding up of the collapse, that we miss the errors with decades of policies that have caused climate change, and pushed millions of people on the run. That has affected those who have not benefited from the policies and the system that has caused the emissions.”
“what if it is not, nor are cuts in klimatsatsningarna as a result of the new budget that we can limit warming to 1.5 degrees, but the fact that no other alternative proposed a radical enough change that it should be possible to achieve these goals.”
“what if the consequence of the simple observation above is that the crucial limit of what the experts mean that the earth is capable of can not be and 99% of the world’s coral reefs are dying, as the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change predicted.”
“what if we go to history as the last generation who could go and who went on snorkelsemester to Thailand. Generation snorkel.”
“Think about someone who whines about ”klimatångest” suddenly suffer a superhuman ability to take in any mikrodel of klimatkrisens real meaning. If the person suddenly feel a vague hint of the extent of the ethically reprehensible choices of which through the generations has led to the hen standing there, on the bright marble floor of the Mall of Scandinavia, and in the same moment as the feeling arises explode, which of course, caught on film, which, in turn, become viral and stirs a global ecological movement worthy of the name.”
“what if this year’s laureates received the prize for ”having built the first model of climate and the economy interact”, though it really is the point, that the emerging economy as we know it do not interact, but always subordinated to, and instead must put it on to ”interact” with their own language, to the economy. And that is why the Nordhaus model gives us the answer to that is optimal to the average temperature rises by 3.5 degrees.*”
“what if the discussion instead of a debate whether or not it is right or wrong to Nordhaus got the price would be about the whole thing is a symptom of a more fundamental, underlying wrong, where a whole discipline that developed, taught, and advocated models that are the basis for the crisis has gained an elevated status that they don’t even themselves think they deserve.”
“what if Alfred Nobel’s will and the fact that there is a nobel prize in economics, instead, would be taken seriously – seriously. Just that Alfred apparently did not expect the economy as a science among the others could have been read as a signal that the economy is not an objective science which we alone can build our view of humankind and worldview.”
“what if any of all that wont take my word for it-take my word for it, and I think it is towards sustainability. I believe that the environmental threat is not a problem, that the extreme right does not destroy and that the new budget is good.”
“what if someone think that I believe that the banana is a fruit.”
“*John Hassler, a member of the economics sciences prize committee, 2018-12-09 in the DN article: ”We need good scientific models to solve the climate crisis””
