Dennis Meadows keynote at the 2018 We Don't Have Time Climate Conference

Prof. Meadows in this keynote said that he had been thinking about issues related to climate change for the past 40 years. He is the co-author of the influential book ‘The Limits to Growth’ in 1972. Mr Meadows referred to that we have had the knowledge of how badly we need to cut carbon (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions ever since but this knowledge is not met by actual decrease in greenhouse gases from human lifestyle. He thus asked: "Why is it CO2 emissions are going up faster than before?".

The world-renowned professor on system management, Dennis Meadow here reveals the idea of "The One Bathtub" and the, according to the professor, "The Three Bathtub” model that instead we need to base our understanding in.

If we are using the facit from the first bathtub to solve the problem in the third bathtub we are not going to succeed. This is what has caused climate crisis that has evolve to it's current dangerous situation.

According to the professor it takes 20-80 years to eliminate those emissions. Serious damage is no longer unavoidable. Ignorance is not bliss. That’s why WeDontHaveTime.org are happy to echo Mr Meadows clear message from his keynote delivered on Earth Day, April 22 2018:
All assumptions of how first Consensus is achieved, leading to Policy implementation and then to Actions have proven false.

Herein lies perhaps a major explanation of the "lack of action" so often referred to in terms of climate change.

“If you are unable to understand a problem soon enough, it i impossible to solve it”.

He closed by the remark: “Soon enough is not far enough in the future. We don’t have much time”.

For a compact version of the story please do read the blog post "Why our current response to the climate crisis is doomed to fail", available at https://medium.com/wedonthavetime

Facts about the WeDontHaveTime Climate Conference 2018:
The full conference was over 4 hours long featuring some 20 speakers and keynotes, panels sessions. Recent facts and statistics on climate change and the effects, risks as well as solutions and action needed to avoid the most alarming effect was presented and discussed.

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