From a concrete city vs garden cityto
anything We Can city
Technology vs
Hard Science
Shell
Energy consumption
Number of cars
Global flow of goods
Animal protein consumption
CO2 emission
“Forecasting” starts from today and doesn't offer views to fruitful possible futures
How much is 630 ppm?
+4 degrees in Celcius
The climate crisis is in its Neville Chamberlain phase right now. People still imagine that a concern with the climate is trendy, and that a judicious head-nod here will mean peace in our time. Those people are not merely mistaken, they are delusionary. They are nodding in disdain at the basic laws of physics.Bruce Sterling
“Climate Change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen.The benefits of strong early action is greater than the its costs.”
Sir Nicholas Stern : The Economics of Climate Change
Climate change is the the economic equivalent of two world wars and a great depression rolled into one.
Sir Nicholas Stern: The Economics of Climate Change
New Industrial Revolution?
Industrial revolution
•Money
•Clock
•Urbanisation
•Socialism
•Nation state
•Representative democracy
•Stock market
Work
Leisure
New industrial revolution?
?•Money
•Clock
•Urbanisation
•Socialism
•Nation state
•Representative democracy
•Stock market
1.The Future is low carbon 2.The primary goal of a (low carbon)
society is happiness3.A Happy society is co-created;
actively made by us all
The Future is Low Carbon
The world emissionsSir Nicholas Stern : The Economics of Climate Change
CO2 emissions / capita
The Primary Goal of a Society is Happiness
Happy Planet Index
Happiness?
Happiness is co-created
• People are happy when they engage in the production of (their own and the common) well-being.
• Happiness is an action, flow
• Achieving happiness requires time and action
• People can be happy about about something or happy in action
• When people are happy about something they compare to others
• When people are happy in action they share happiness with others
Here we get a formula for the future
CO2= FUTURE
A Happy Society is Co-Created, Made by Us All
It is not about technologyIt is not about politics
It is about how we
conceive and produce
technology and politics
New Industrial Revolution
39
from centralised to distributed
Production
40
from specialised to shared
Division of labour
Distributed and shared
FoodEnergyGoods
ServicesHomes
42
My Farm: San Francisco
43
Velib: Paris
44
RechargeIT: Google
45
DIY Planet Repairs: London
• 50-70's I need wellfare state
• 80-90's I want consumer society, individualims
• 2000's I can knowledge-based society
• 2010's We can peer-to-peer society
“I call it the politics of "I can". It represents a desire for people to not just have access to material goods, but greater power, control and choice over all aspects of their life, from the jobs they do, the relationships they enter, the services they use, the products they buy.
[...] It is an age where people want to be players not just spectators. [...] ‘
Web 2.0 allows the spirit of “I can” to transcend the limits of consumerism, and become a mass movement for cooperation. “
David Miliband: “We can -politics”
Structures for We canStructures for co-creation