Keynote speech for Act Now for an Equitable and Sustainable World (22/9/2021) “Thank you for the chance to speak at this event! I have studied and worked with climate action since 2014 concentrating on mitigation which means reducing climate-heating emissions from human activities. …

There has been considerable debate over individual lifestyle change as a political means to achieve society-wide decarbonization. The purpose of this post is not to take a political position to which one is more important, individual or collective action, but rather to show what I have done to limit my…

“Domestic aviation is not the biggest problem, the problem is global growth. 80 % of aviation is 1500+ km. (A certain Nordic airline) will have some electric planes on short routes in ten years to my knowledge. The reason why aviation is being discussed is the cumulative growth out to…

Löysin hiljattain erittäin mielenkiintoisen tutkimuksen vaikeiden tulevaisuuden ilmastovaikutusten viestimisen aiheuttamista tunnetiloista ja käyttäytymismalleista. Tutkimuksessa käsitellään Pariisin sopimuksen reilusti alle 2 celciusasteen tavoitteen epäonnistumisen ja siitä seuraavien katastrofaalisten vaikutusten todennäköisyyttä sekä tilanteesta viestimisen vaikeutta. Tavoitteeseen pääseminen vaatii suuria, välittömiä toimenpiteitä.

Being honest about climate change is something that has eluded our species, our culture, our economies and our behavior for a long time. I was once perhaps a bit too grandiose in framing the context merely by looking at the science. To approach an issue which is essential and imminent…

Thinking about climate change is not something that comes naturally to humans — or ‘consumers’ as we have called ourselves for decades. It is not only emotionally unpleasant but mentally extremely challenging. I argue that most of us do not grasp how immediate this situation has become, how fast it…

Climate change is hard to think about in an emotional sense. There are dark periods of political inaction and hostility, emerging security risks and sheer anxiety of losing natural systems like the Great Barrier Reef. On the other hand, some climate action initiatives in planning seem to take epic proportions…

A gaping disparity has appeared between what Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement calls ‘bourgeois belief in the regularity of the world’ and the emerging observations of intrusive, non-human forces therein. That sounds very fancy and all, but I see it everywhere. In fact, it has become impossible not to…

I recently read an article about a new fishing gadget called PowerRay. It is an underwater drone which sends footage of fish to the fisherman. It has a sonar fish detector. My first reaction to this vehicle is that of repulsion. Have we had enough of tech already? How much…