If we as a species are to significantly address not only the climate problem, but other eco-socio-ethical existential threats as well, then governments must adopt these eight policies.
https://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Save-the-Planet-Statement.pdf
This is what it will take to avoid catastrophe. Stop-gap measures and tinkering around the edges of the problem will not suffice. So say those identified in the title of this essay. They are correct.
All previous Climate Conferences have accomplished little to nothing regarding implementing real solutions to the Crisis. Let's hope this one is different. One of the hindrances to effective solutions continues to be the popular view of mainstream economics. Its supporters appear to see it essentially as a secular religion. As such, it is promoted and promulgated as faith-based, a "given". Any challenges to it are treated as sacrilegious.
Governments must overcome that obstacle. Science does not support such a view. Mainstream economists in general are dead wrong in their belief that economics is larger than and separate from the natural world. Reliance on linear mathematical equations and linear thinking has led them to such an erroneous conclusion. Our Earth System is nonlinear. As such, it has emergent properties either not accounted for or ignored by the bulk of today's economists and many business leaders in various industries.
Massive problems have arisen regarding our atmosphere, soil, water, wildlife, forests, prairies, the spread of disease (not only in humans, but also in other animal life and in plants, including crops), cities, and more. Either directly or indirectly, neoclassical (AKA, neoliberal) economics and linear thinking largely are responsible for these problems. [Over the last fifteen years, I've posted details of such causation throughout this blog and here: https://ecologicalliberalism.blogspot.com/ . Even more details are in my book, which I published in April.]
Hopefully, COP 27 will not drop the ball. If they do, any further such conferences probably will be way too late.
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Not only my opinion. Take Care
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