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Workshop 5
“Anthropogenic Climate Destabilization: A Worst-case Scenario”
Participant Statement
September 12–14, 2008 | Bellevue, Washington
Crispin Tickell
What are the three critical questions you would ask pertaining to “anthropogenic climate change: a worst-case scenario” – and why?
1. How can we persuade the international community, governments, regions and local communities of the urgent need for action to avert the worst consequences of climate change, in particular climate destabilization?
2. How can we best promote measures to wean countries from dependence on diminishing supplies of fossil fuel, and promote new technologies for the purpose?
3. How can we influence the international debate by:
• persuading the industrial countries of their special responsibility for what has happened and for the need for them not only to give the example in reducing their own carbon emissions, but also to help other countries reduce theirs?
• correcting conventional economic analysis by bringing in externalities and true costs, and introducing a new matrix of human welfare for sustainability?
• underlining the special vulnerability of cities where half the human species now lives, and what should be done about it?
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