Johan (Johann) Rockström
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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The window is still open to avoid the most catastrophic outcomes.
And what I mean by catastrophic is the point where fires, drought and heat waves become so difficult to handle that communities simply have to move out.
And that is what worries me most today, that we're allowing ourselves to look at these extreme events and continue to kick the can down the road and not acting.
And that can take us into real danger.
One has to recognize that the transition is challenging.
I mean, we've been for 200 years powering the global economy with fossil fuels and unsustainable production systems.
Now we need to very rapidly move away from fossil fuels, oil, coal and gas.
We need to move into circular economic models and we need to have
sustainable ways of managing our oceans, our forests, our wetlands, our peatlands.
We know all this.
We even have solutions on how to scale sustainable production and consumption practices.
And still we're not moving fast enough.
Yeah, the advancements in science and our extraordinary ability today to measure down to the single tree and fish in the ocean, the state of the planet, is a tremendous value.
And that risk assessment is not there to scare us.
Risk assessment is to avoid doing the wrong things.
Absolutely.
And when you think of it, in all other paths of our life, health risks, or if it is risks to our economy, or if it's risk to our house burning down, we are concerned.
We buy insurance.
We want information.
Why aren't we seeing risk assessments as a way of ensuring that we can hand over a stable, resilient, life-supporting, livable planet to our children?
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