Nudging for the future (Uli Weber) Germany

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Nudging for Future 11. May 2019 | 07:30

By Uli Weber Politics and media teach us again and again, one cannot conclude from the individual on the whole and fear is a bad adviser. But in the climate, all of this is suddenly very different, because Greta wants to put us in a panic and is celebrated on Fridays frightened shaking students - and all together are then courted by politics, media and church. And a single particularly hot and dry summer in turn proves the latter already a "man-made" climate change and allegedly forces us to immediate action.

Greta Thunberg,, a Swedish schoolgirl who, at age 15 in 2018, began protesting about the need for immediate action to combat climate change outside the Swedish parliament. On 15 March 2019, an estimated 1.4 million students in 112 countries around the world joined her call in striking and protesting.

A search for the term "climate adaptation concept" yields approximately 16,600 results in 0.26 seconds, for example the city of Kaiserslautern's climate adaptation concept. The press release in question states quoted citations: " Adapting to climate change is a task for society as a whole and one of the central tasks of the future, which we must already face today," said Environment Commissioner Peter Kiefer, who opened the event and also concluded with a closing remarks. According to 1

the alderman, climate change can no longer be stopped. "It's already too late for that. The average annual temperatures rise, the weather changes. Hot days increase, heavy rainfall will occur more frequently. We were already able to experience samples of what could come in the past few years. " " Kiefer:" It is bad enough that we will hand over the planet to our children in this condition. But what would be much worse would be if we did not do something about it today ! "...

As Lรถbig pointed out on the basis of local weather data, for Kaiserslautern climate change is not an abstract topic of the future, but a clearly tangible process that has long since begun. Benden then explained the four key objectives ("reduce heat - create green!", "Minimize damage in heavy rain!", "Organize climate adaptation!", Actively involve citizens and businesses! ") And the associated individual measures.

Ideologies are usually quite alternative to civil rights , but today there are very sophisticated tools that can be used to avoid unsightly images. Namely, one can "push" the affected people into the desired direction of thought through targeted psycho-medial assistance.

You may also have noticed that the daily news, even in the regional programs, increasingly reported on extreme weather events from all over the world? See eg NDR contribution to the Zykon "Fani" in India on NDR News "= News and Information from the whole North " from May 3, 2019 at 21:45 clock from 13:45 minute. It may indeed be that Bhubaneshwar is now due to the globalization of the "whole north" is attributable, even if so far is not yet clear whether it feels the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony or Schleswig-Holstein, But now the climate is defined as the "average of 30 years of weather" and at the beginning of this decade even the IPCC had not been able to detect any accumulation of such events ( quotes here), but suddenly there is now a media extreme weather alarm. Such augmented catastrophes may well suggest that the well-informed news consumer has an accumulation of extreme weather events when there is no verifiable evidence. However, this media accumulation can also be explained simply by the fact that only the political priority for the dissemination of such reports and their geographical observation radius could have increased, and such messages are therefore increasingly being implemented in regional news formats, even though they are not included there.

And in a modern problem-solving workshop, you could even convey the fiction of actively taking part in any decision-making process that you have already defined. Let's just take a very harmless example from the municipal climate protection program of the Federal Environment Agency:

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Usually, a concrete concept of action is first worked out by experts. In a moderated event, the target group is finally invited to brainstorm solutions to this topic, as the following figure is intended to show by way of example only, without any assumption being made:

Illustration from a lecture by Hans-Joachim Ritter, City Administration Speyer: Integrated concept and innovative strategy for climate adaptation ( source UBA ) During a coffee break, such a brainstorming result could then also be systematically arranged in such a way that the previously elaborated action scheme is reproduced purely by chance. Afterwards one would work out the individual action fields again in the same way in small groups in a targeted manner and in the end confirm the previously defined action concept.

Incidentally, the first process is called "nudging", the second one could be called "goal-driven opinion formation".

Following the US exit from the Paris Climate Agreement, efforts in "climate protection" should now have shifted more from the (inter) national stage to the regional and local levels. It is essentially a matter of minimizing or completely avoiding CO 2 emissions. And if we are then "pushed" a little bit further, you will automatically come to the necessity of a global CO 2 tax, for which we here in Germany, of course , once again have to assume the international pioneering role, "because the climate is no Knows borders ".

For a meaningful adaptation to natural climate change, such as a new " warm period " or a new "Little Ice Age", But then not much money left. And although "the climate knows no bounds", relatively little will be done with such natural climatic fluctuations in the tropics and subtropics. For example, climate science still claims that the "Medieval Warm Period" and the "Little Ice Age" were merely regional events. However, these "regional events" had just played here in middle geographical latitudes. So the money to adapt to natural climate change would also be needed here at a very regional level, and we should not simply throw it out of the window at random as a new "forerunner" ...

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Just take a look at the Internet for a specific term under "Climate Adaptation Concept" for your city / district, which will provide you with everything you need for the local World Climate Alliance. Maybe then you will also learn that the climate emergency has long since been proclaimed there. However, one must now ask what the official proclamation of such a "climate emergency" may mean in practical terms, because the term "emergency" usually indicates catastrophic conditions. So let's take a look at Wikipedia, quote : " Emergency is the state of present danger for legally protected interests, which can only be averted at the expense of foreign interests. " So, a "climate emergency" can only be remedied at the expense of foreign interests. The author will not speculate here about whose interests that may be and how the danger to the climate should be remedied. But it is already clear that, at local level, climate protection should be prioritized over other legitimate interests. On the website of the German Bundestag you will find the following message , which rounds off such a picture meaningfully, quote: " In order to counteract a" climate catastrophe ", Alliance 90 / The Greens want to anchor climate protection in the Basic Law . The Bundestag debated for the first time for one hour on Thursday, 27 September 2018 , following a request from the Group ( 19/4522 ), and then referred it to the Committee on Home Affairs for advice. Support received the project only from the faction The Left . " And with such an anchoring of climate protection in the Basic Law, a "climate emergency" would collide directly with the civil rights and freedoms.

The responsible citizen may therefore pay very good attention to how far he can instrumentalize himself for a " good cause " in the cloak of climate protection. The politically controlled process of transforming our industrial society back into the ecological Middle Ages through various changes of direction (energy, transport and agriculture) has already begun long ago. And from 2020 onwards, the industrialized nations of the world still want to spend 100 billion US dollars annually on a " Green Climate Fund " to the rest of the world - in gratitude for their signature under the Paris climate treaty to the global decarbonization up to the year 2100. Just to fulfill our pecuniary climate obligations from this "Green Climate Fund", we are no longer able to avoid a CO 2 tax with falling tax revenues. And the next global UN octopus is already in the starting blocks to spread the last of our economic resources for alleged biodiversity conservation across the globe.

Soon after the European elections in 2019, the “Minions of Merkel� will have to announce joyfully, the CO 2 tax is just there, but nobody will take anything away ...

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The world is a very special, beautiful place in the universe. We should give it the care and respect that it deserves, not endless false alarmism and fear mongering.

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