The Fifth Stage of Climate Awareness

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The fourth stage of climate awareness is recognizing that two thirds of the CO2 that we emit every year comes from the burning of fossil fuels. We are drawing down this ancient carbon battery of Earth, millions of times faster than it was sequestered in the past by daily photosynthesis. The underlying decline rate of existing oil fields in the world is approaching 6% a year. To offset that, we have to drill faster and more and deeper in order to offset what's already depleting. So this is a one time pulse.

Climate change is often described as one of the single most important and existential issues of our time - that there is no greater threat to humanity. While the effects of climate on our ecosystems and wildlife is one of my greatest concerns, it does not tell the whole story.

On this weeks Frankly, I highlight (what was in my case) Seven Stages of Climate Awareness – from recognizing ‘there is an environment’ to understanding that the systems dynamics of the human economy implies a much different choreography of societal response than is currently being advertised and pursued. Global warming is becoming more obvious to more people, but the interventions look quite different at Stage 7 than Stage 4. It is unlikely we’ll find ‘solutions’ without first understanding the dynamics at its core.

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