Stop saying ‘Climate emergency!’? (Until, collectively, we mean it?)
By Rupert Read, Wolfgang Knorr, Resilience.org
Because the so-called ‘emergency’ isn’t going to solve it for us. Moreover, it isn’t going to get ‘solved’ as such at all. The start of the new beginning we need, is to admit that we have failed. And then seek, everywhere, and together, a real way forward.
If you still want 1.5 – think twice and think deeply
By Wolfgang Knorr, Brave New Europe
With the world’s eyes currently glued on COP26, it’s time to take a fresh look at how we handle global, protracted crises.
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
By James Dyke, Robert Watson, Wolfgang Knorr
Collectively we three authors of this article must have spent more than 80 years thinking about climate change. Why has it taken us so long to speak out about the obvious dangers of the concept of net zero?
The Climate Crisis Demands New Ways of Thinking from Climate Scientists
By Wolfgang Knorr, Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability
It becomes clear where the way out of the crisis can be found – at least in principle: acceptance of our collective failure, humility on the part of the "experts", and immediate action from the human side of the problem.