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ECI hosts conference on COP21

21/9/2016

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Last night I went to the public launch of  1.5 Degrees: Meeting the challenges of the Paris Agreement - http://www.1point5degrees.org.uk/

Excellent set of talks, discussions and Q&A on meeting the challenges of keeping global warming to below 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.  Will be interested to see the results of the rest of the conference, especially how the matter of global justice is treated, on top of the technical and geopolitical aspects. 
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Planetary CFO - we're accustomed to speed

8/9/2016

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The pace of modern life in the mainstream is something most have become accustomed to.  It has become 'the new norm' and it's part of the system with immense inertia driving us through sustainability boundaries.

This is like our perception when driving.  When we drive fast, our brains get accustomed to that speed.  It's as if our brains make decisions on less and less information from each object we pass, but turn their attention more to movements and 'strategic' matters such as the next junction or changing conditions.  If we're not careful, we maintain this 'mode' even when we slow down, eg  to enter a 30- or 20 mile an hour zone.  As a result, everything seems to be moving so slowly when we do this, and sometimes it feels like we're going at 10 instead of 30.  The natural inclination, if we weren't taking notice of speed limit signs, would be to still be travelling at 40 or 50 but thinking we were travelling at 30.  I read about this effect a few years ago, and then consciously looked out for it, checking myself against speed limit signs before arriving in the next speed zone, and realised that it was a real effect.  Without having been primed to look out for it, I might never have noticed it.

Unsustainability is a little like this.  Unless we check ourselves against it, the tendency is for the speed of modern 'developed/advanced' existence, built on efficient systems of exploitation of natural and ecological resources, and grown largely on the back of fossil fuels and a growth model of the economy, to be something we become accustomed to.  Any 'slower', more sustainable existence feels too slow to even contemplate.  So the mainstream juggernaut ploughs on ...

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