I saw an entertaining talkshow with Germany's previous Green vice chancellor Robert Habeck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1DwIDPdcE
He acts as talk master and his guests are Anders Levermann, complexity researcher at PIK Potsdam, and Florence Gaub, scenario researcher with NATO.
The narrative arc spanned climate change impacts and security.
Florence was particularly fascinating and fun. Anders too, ofc.
However. Several moments had me despair over what little grasp even well-meaning decision-makers have of climate change impacts. Habeck's knowledge gaps in only these 90 minutes are merely the tip of the ice berg. And he, a long-time Greens member. What do other politicians and CEOs think they know about climate change impacts – compared to what has been published by the IPCC?
Habeck's fails weren't as staggering as Obama's in this clip. But if we dug deeper, which other misconceptions would we find in Habeck's mind that make hims such an avid proponent of utterly inadequate approaches to climate protection like price signals, incrementalism and such neoliberal concepts?
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