<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php&source=gmail&ust=1604412725008000&usg=AFQjCNFP5nTuTZuutPegzWRLRgifLKNIhA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; display: block; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Resistance and challenges to Green Deals should not be underestimated</font></span></h2><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;" class="">EUROPEAN ACADEMIES' SCIENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL</span><br class=""></font></span></header><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">A Perspective by the EASAC Environment Steering Panel</font></span></p></div><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;" class=""><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><br class=""></dd></dl></a><div class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php&source=gmail&ust=1604412725008000&usg=AFQjCNFP5nTuTZuutPegzWRLRgifLKNIhA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/<wbr class="">pub_releases/2020-10/easa-<wbr class="">rac102820.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Excerpt : </b>Demand for energy and resources has been growing as a result of population growth and increased consumption to the point where all the scientific evidence shows we are bumping up against fundamental planetary boundaries on which our civilizations depend. EASAC summarises this evidence with a focus on climate and biodiversity, describing what many international scientists have been thinking since the 1970s - that current unsustainable trajectories are built into our economic theories and our political reward systems. These fundamentals need to be reset so that long-term sustainability is built into our decision-making at all levels rather than just left to altruism at the fringes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The short-term perspective of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">many</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> vested interests in continuing the status quo (whether in fossil fuels, resources extraction, high consumption in the linear economy, overfishing, conversion of forests and so on) is a formidable barrier to change. "Decision-makers seem to listen more to vested interests than to science," says Anders Wijkman, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. "The science message has been consistent since the 1970s on the finite nature of the planet but been ignored. Incremental emissions reductions - achieved so far - are far from what is needed."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Climate warming is proceeding too fast to meet the Paris Agreement objective of avoiding dangerous climate change. Positive feedback effects that accelerate warming are already occurring.</p></div><div class=""><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><br class="">"Direct effects of climatic warming can be understood through fatal decrements in an organism's performance in growth, <br class="">reproduction, foraging, immune competence, behaviors and competitiveness."<br class=""><br class="">Portner and Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. Science October 31 2008</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">———————————————————————————————------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“The fact is that we, humans, have changed the composition of the atmosphere with respect to heat-trapping gases enough to start the progression of global climate, not into a new steady state, but into </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">an open-ended warming that is pulling the environment out from under this civilization.”</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">George Woodwell</span></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><<</span><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-dr-george-woodwell-sets-the-record-straight-455bfcf14412/</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">>></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">———————————————————————————-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“A new area of study is the field that some of us are beginning to call social traps. The term refers to situations in society that contain traps formally like a fish trap, where men or whole societies get themselves started in some direction or some set of relationships that later prove to be unpleasant or lethal and that they see no easy way to back out of or to avoid."</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">John Platt. Social Traps. American Psychologist, August 1973</span></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">———————————————————————————--------------------</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Lance Olsen</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><<<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/</a>>></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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