GEOS2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Naomi Klein, Bill Mckibben, Greenwashing

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Geoscience
• Course: GEOS2121
• Professor: Sophie Webber

Document Summary

Module 4: alternative practices for saving the world. Expands practices of commoning for common environmental goods and services. Explores a variety of alternative practices (non-state, non-market measures) and their effectiveness in achieving environmental goals. Different kinds of politics for climate change. Shifting the scales of environmental management and governance. The world will need to be carbon-neutral by 2047 to give us a 66% chance of hitting the. 1. 5oc target, or by 2058 for a 50% chance. This will mean: sourcing 70 85% of electricity from renewables by 2050, putting a price on greenhouse emissions, using technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Australia effectively has 2 decades to deliver on our pledge for the paris agreement but. Mi(cid:272)hael m(cid:272)co(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:272)k"s (cid:894)aust(cid:396)alia"s deputy p(cid:396)i(cid:373)e mi(cid:374)iste(cid:396)(cid:895) (cid:396)espo(cid:374)se (cid:449)as that the government would not change policy (cid:862)just (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause so(cid:373)e(cid:271)ody (cid:373)ight suggest that so(cid:373)e sort of report is the (cid:449)ay (cid:449)e (cid:374)eed to follo(cid:449) a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g that (cid:449)e should do(cid:863)