Brief talk after the screening of the film 2040 in the Carterton Events Centre by Carterton District Council as part of Conservation Week.
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Talk after film 2040
1. A full Events Centre for the Rates Resistance Carterton meeting.
2. "It is not the mountain we conquer
but ourselves."
Edmund Hillary
3. Two sides of the same coin.
A positive vision for the future - a carrot.
Optimists - there is no progress without them
The impending reality - the stick.
Pessimists - confront the harsh realities
4. The future is already here
it's just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson in The Economist, December 4, 2003
5. More than a psychological problem
Global warming is a terrible problem psychologically if you
combined all the things people are really bad at and tried to
manufacture a problem that people would not care about it would look
like global warming
Dan Ariely - Professor Behavioural Economics
The status quo and their interests - fossil fuel lobby, agriculture, banks,
business
10. 12 Page submission to 2019/20 Annual Plan
To address to 4 Es:
Ecological, Energy, Economic, Equity
Climate Change - 48 specific
recommendations across:
Governance
Infrastructure
Community Resilience
Onsite water harvesting
With financial model for interest-free
loans for tanks in existing urban
dwellings
12. What to do?
Have conversations about climate change - make it normal
Watch Hot Air
Read un-denial.com - Manifesto
Work with others - groups are more effective
Lobby politicians - central and local
Policy settings will make the big changes needed
Promote inclusive decision-making - like Citizens Assemblies
www.sortitionfoundation.org
Work on your own lowering your own households carbon footprint
13. "What you do is insignificant
but its most important that
you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi