Kevin Anderson: The current state of the climate crisis - interviewed by Isak Stoddard
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2023
- Interview with Kevin Anderson December 7, 2023, by Isak Stoddard at CEMUS, Uppsala University.
Kevin Anderson is professor of Energy and Climate Change, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, at the University of Manchester. He was the second Zennström visiting professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, now visiting professor at Uppsala University and adjunct professor at the University of Bergen. Kevin is a well-known and established researcher within climate change science who engages frequently with policy-makers, the private sector, civil society as well as the media. He has pioneered research on carbon budgets and pathways to acceptable mitigation levels, and worked on the technical, social and economic interactions involved in the transformation of energy systems, the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
Read more about Kevin Anderson at tyndall.ac.uk/people/kevin-an..., kevinanderson.info/, climateuncensored.com/ and / kevinclimate
Isak Stoddard is pursuing a PhD in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. In his current research he studies the imaginaries and temporalities underpinning regional climate and energy transitions within Sweden. His educational background is in engineering physics and over the past two decades he’s spent much of his time developing and supporting transdisciplinary approaches to higher education at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS).
Read more about Isak Stoddard at www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id...
Read more about CEMUS here www.cemus.uu.se - Наука та технологія
Thanks to Kevin Anderson. He's always been one to lay out the hard truth of our situation. I fear though that the changes he says are needed aren't going to happen anythung like fast enough.
Finally, a discussion that tackles this subject with a more serious tone of voice.
Very interesting interview with Pr. Kevin Anderson . He is a nice person ! It seems to me that I know him since a very long time ago...He has almost the same carrier path like me. I am mining and energy engineer but since the Chernobyl nuclear accident of the 27.04.1986 in ukrain, I turn my attention and thinking and doing to ENVIRONMENTAL education. M. Ali Berrada . From Marrakech
I believe Kevin has grossly understated our predicament, I still enjoy listening to him but
We can't stop! Overshoot, human enterprise has overshot the carrying capacity of the environment.
Excellent talk. Kevin is putting the main questions forward. Zen has been a great practice for me.
Thanks for posting this. Keep it up Kevin. Your appreciated. 🙂
Kevin and Isak thank you. With the platform you have are you able to put this in terms of the radical changes essential to the continuation of society? I'm suggesting an emotional appeal, based on science and including words not for the most part acceptable to academic science, such as killing, murder and so on. The world is well past incrementalism, and needs real words to describe and explain what many are experiencing in their reality every day. Hunger, starvation, drought, homelessness, death, killing and murder. It's radical change that's needed, likely rebellion against this system. It's a tall order I know. Interviewing Erica Chenoweth might be an idea? Or Andreas Malm? I would suppose Roger Hallam is a step too far? But thanks for what you're doing. Cheers Brian
Kevin has been the canary in the mine for a long time, if only he had been listened to sooner. What COP 28 has demonstrated better than any of the previous COPs is that the COP (Conference of Parties) should really be called COVIP (Conference of Vested Interested Parties)
The talk was amazing and more informative on the hard to abate issue Dr Kevin.
Climate change is one of the major challenges where few countries have initiated actions to restore earth systems.
I wish your team can give more solutions in this area for the new era on climate change 😄🎉❤
Kevin Anderson - speaking truth 2 power, fine upstanding and highly educated citizen . climate hero!
Equity, justice and fairness actualized can only mean a massive reduction in the material conditions of life experienced/presumed by most living in and benefiting from the "top 1%". Further, these very same material conditions are aspirational for many in the rest of the world. What existing politician, let alone political system, has either the capacity or life span to initiate actual and requisite equity, justice and fairness?
The world view of professor Anderson, as clear eyed as it is, is so far removed from the perspective of most people as to be completely incomprehensible. Japanese public schools regularly hold earthquake and tsunami drills. However, when the great earthquake of March 11, 2011 struck, thousands upon thousands of people squandered the precious minutes between the shaking and the arrival of the tsunami by choosing not to move to higher ground. About 20,000 perished.
Here in the U. S., the weather can be extreme. The National Weather Service does an excellent job of issuing warnings. However, many people prefer to not let extreme weather interfere with their plans, which is why snow packed highways become miles long parking lots, flanked by ditches filled with all types of vehicles. People regularly drive into flooded sections of roads, only to be swept downstream. They stay put in the face of dire hurricane warnings, with totally predictable results. Tornado warnings are regularly ignored until the roof starts to tear away.
In conclusion. WE ARE SO VERY FUCKED.
Thank you, Kevin and Isak!
Kevin is great, so straightforward, matter of fact, mud in your eye, no BS.
I’m a big supporter of Paul Beckwith, and he’s a big supporter of Dr. Hansen.😮😊
Kevin Anderson explains his views very well. Thank you!
Thank you for this interview.
How can we make Kevin Anderson in charge of things?
Has an accurate transcript of this conversation been produced?
This is one of the finest best climate scientists
What about reduced aerosol masking after fossil fuel use reduction?
As a specialist on the "human-condition," I CERTAINLY disagree with the grade of "A" spoken of at 08:02, which re-affirms how important it has always been to talk about ourselves, not with this ingrained "human-chauvinism" - which can STILL make the greatest scientist think that we are just one tiny turn away from a major paradigm-shift - but instead, with the CLEAREST mirror of truth facing us and admitting (for the benefit of our collective-unconscious, an important driver of behavioral-change at the species level) that the TRUE first step required for ANY TYPE of mitigation ventures to succeed is that ~ Our species has been the greatest villains against LIFE that this planet has ever known!
Professor-Marty.
You seem to be quite ego-centric. Do we not have unlimited potential? That we are weak or distracted seems quite likely. Nihilism and narcissism also seems to be dominating present day consciousness. Does it really matter? Will the universe cry or lament our destruction of paradise? We had a chance to live in the garden of Eden and we blew it. If you look at our species progress we have accomplished some incredible feats, stupid feats displaying abandonment of wisdom. We have converted most of the sand in the world to concrete structures, we have changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere, we extract and burn 100 million barrels of oil per day in machines of our design. Foolish but amazing.
Painfully optimistic. In terms of 1.5 degs not yet reached. 3 or 4 degs warming not till LATE this century.
The claim that we have ALL the tools available to 'fix it'. Let alone the political challenges.
But refreshingly blunt about our failure as a species, since 1992, with GHG emissions now higher than ever.
I would like to know why the level always increases 3 ppm per year, even though we are emitting about five times as much as 1960. I think 1960 was 8 billion tons and now it’s 38 billion tons, but the whole time atmospheric levels increased at a steady rate.
literally do 10 seconds of googling: mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/words/carbon.html
Yes, your comments on the global climate conferences are evident this week at COP28
No we won’t change until the politics of war and conflicts are settled first…because wars are easier to work on th a climate crisis. And first is social equality. This. is fundamental, social Justice.
What do you think the annual income of COP attendees?
People have been trying do "do something" for over fifty years with 0% success. I'm not insane. I know when we've lost.
How much CO2 is the result of unnecessary manufacturing due to planned obsolescence? Economists ignore the depreciation of durable consumer goods even though the purchase of those goods is added to GDP.
What is NDP, Net Domestic Product?
Economists cannot do algebra.
They can't tell an air conditioner from a banana.
What about the escalation of wars. We are not taking stuff seriously at all.
Kevin Anderson is brilliant, but I wonder why he still peddles hopium.
Some of the phrases and vocabulary used in the interview made me pause the video to grasp the meaning. Maybe there can be a translation into simpler English for the bottom 99% :)
What about methane levels ?
Technology, the rise and fall of civilization.
Great explanation, i honestly cant see humans stopping, well, anything really. It takes generations to change this, tome we dont have.
In the words of rem,
Its the end of the world as we know it..
N i feel fine.
Political commitments seem more important than lives what about China
COP , showing ostriches how its really done .
It is our actions, not our words, that determine whether or not we are adressing climate change. Talk is cheap.
It’s customers who burn fossil fuels, not the fossil fuel producers. Don’t you need to convince the customers as opposed to blaming the producers? If customers stopped burning the product there would be no market for fossil fuels, other than for non combustion purposes (chemicals etc).
I think the easier way should be to force the producers to stop, thereby forcing the customers to find alternatives.
I have no faith in changing the minds of people hooked on a life based on oil, including my own.
Far too optimistic...
More hopium.... And the aerosol masking? And IRREVERSIBLE global warming...?
Enjoyable and clear discussion, but to say "we need deep social change" points to truth not yet confronted, and often in fact eluded in scientists' displays of graphs and numbers and percentages. Sure the objective trajectories of climate change are the essential bedrock of 'the problem', but massive political reorientation, and immense social change of the way everyone lives would in fact be the proper focus to avoid about 3-4 degrees rise this century. Renewables won't do it. We don't have carbon capture and storage that works yet. Electric cars are about 10% if that of the solution, and terrible problems with batteries still arise. We can't grow enough trees fast enough on available land. All geo-engineering is risky. Half the world's countries will insist on their right to industrialise like the West did ... etc. Scientists ARE NOT good on topics of social change: we can see now the real problems are human political-psychological throughout our institutions, underpinned by traditional systems of power.
At least Kevin Anderson is not technocratic, and understands the systemic character of the changes required.