EcoSveglia - edizione inglese

Stopping global warming and promoting climate justice will take the active participation of citizens, whether through policy or activism. By exploring practical cases we will understand how the participation of an active and caring citizenship can truly make a difference.

We have arrived at the ninth episode of EcoSveglia! Today we turn our attention to an unfortunately widespread issue that causes much confusion and harm: climate denialism. We look for answers to understand where these approaches originate, how they develop, why they manage to make such a dent in our imagination, and how we can fight them.

In the eighth episode of EcoSveglia we focus on the topic of water: how scarce it is, how essential, how precious, how dangerous--and how it plays a key role in the climate crisis.

The effects of extreme weather events - which will be increasingly frequent and intense due to climate change - have very different consequences depending on where they take place. The climate crisis and related problems affect those living in low- and middle-income countries the most. We elaborate on this today in the seventh episode of EcoSveglia.

How can we mitigate and adapt to extreme weather events that will be increasingly impactful? Today we focus on the concepts of mitigation and adaptation based on reports from the IPCC, the intergovernmental body that studies causes and effects of global warming and describes the state of the global climate.

Surely you’ve heard of recycling as a great solution to environmental problems. News flash: it's not! We will not recycle our way out of the climate crisis. We need to do much more than that! Find out all about the real solutions, beyond recycling, on the fifth episode of EcoSveglia.

A low-carbon economy, which is what we need to achieve as soon as possible, is directly linked to a more local economy. In the fourth episode of EcoSveglia we learn all about the great potential of local economies.

Have you ever heard of energy poverty? It occurs when energy bills represent a high percentage of household income affecting people's ability to cover expenses. This is one of the many challenges brought by the climate crisis. We discuss it today in the third episode of EcoSveglia.

Depending on the lifestyle transportation emissions can make up the largest part of an individual's carbon footprint. Today we dive into the topic of transportation in the second episode of the second season of EcoSveglia.

Welcome to the second season of EoSveglia, where we wake up to the most pressing environmental topics of our time. In the first episode we talk about the carbon budget: the amount of CO2 emissions we can allow our global economies to produce to stay within a certain temperature threshold. To find the entire first season of EcoSveglia just pop over to our web page at www.ambientiamociqui.it.

EcoSveglia comes to an end covering the Paris Agreement. In the tenth and final episode of the series, we dive into the first truly global agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions and address the impacts of climate change, seeing how it will serve little purpose if national targets are not increased and implemented quickly. Come listen to the last episode of EcoSveglia!

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https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/international/negotiations/paris_it

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/13/paris-climate-deal-cop-diplomacy-developing-united-nations#

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/08/the-paris-agreement-five-years-on-is-it-strong-enough-to-avert-climate-catastrophe

https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu/

We are almost at the end of our series! In the second to last episode, the theme is linked to the idea of a "post-development", which calls us to find other definitions of well-being and to allow the imagination of other futures. Don't miss a new episode of EcoSveglia!

International development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_development

Economic growth can’t go back to normal to solve the ecological crisis
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/08/economic-growth-cant-go-back-normal-if-we-are-solve-ecological-crisis

Farewell to Development – interview to Arturo Escobar
https://greattransition.org/publication/farewell-to-development

UN Sustainable development goals
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

UN Sustainable development goals – 2019 Report
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/

Foreign Aid: Are we really helping others or just ourselves?
Maliha Chishti at TEDxUTSC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJ6p0B5V_A

We have made it to the 8th episode of EcoSveglia. Today, the topic is as wide as "production and consumption" so we examine the concept of material flows along with economic growth and planned obsolescence. Is there a way to get off the hamster wheel of consumption where perhaps there could be less ecological and social exploitation? Find out more in the new episode of EcoSveglia!


The story of Stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&feature=emb_title


Economic growth

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescita_economica

A brief histroy of modern inequality

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/a-brief-history-of-modern-inequality/

Scientists’ warning on affluence - Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y?fbclid=IwAR0BR7V4MPdPR5A9Y_dE0xEhRO3J98N11KtQ1JZNKRysr7g98XX120AfRI0

Buen vivir

https://www.degrowth.info/en/dim/degrowth-in-movements/buen-vivir/

Farewell to Development – interview to Arturo Escobar

https://greattransition.org/publication/farewell-to-development

Digitalization and energy consumption. Does ICT reduce energy demand?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919320622?via%3Dihub

As we reach the end of EcoSveglia, the topics get a bit more complex. The 7th episode takes us through the problematic relationship between extractivism and the natural environment. For example, the principle guiding deforestation holds that nature is something to be taken, that nature can be used up and turned into money. Certainly, a destructive logic with a very high price. Tune in for a short reflection on this very important topic.

References:

http://www.fao.org/state-of-forests/2020/en/

https://www.cl.undp.org/content/chile/es/home/library/environment_energy/guias-campesinas/manejo-sustentable-del-bosque-nativo.html

https://intercontinentalcry.org/rights-nature-indigenous-philosophies-reframing-law/

Convivial conservation
https://convivialconservation.com/

What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the non-Human by Kate Soper (Blackwell, 1995)
Book review
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/nature-nature

Behind the allure of every new fashion trend lies the massive exploitation of workers and the environment. Fashion, specifically fast fashion, has a very harmful social and environmental impact. Today, in the 6th episode of EcoSveglia we dive a little deeper into the cultural habits that might steer us in the right direction. Tune in!


https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/apr/07/fast-fashion-speeding-toward-environmental-disaster-report-warns

https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/old-environmental-impacts

https://www.theconsciouschallenge.org/ecologicalfootprintbibleoverview/water-clothing

https://globalfashionagenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Pulse-of-the-Fashion-Industry_2017.pdf

Not only will diets (especially in rich countries) have to be adapted to curb climate change, but also the way we farm.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualising-the-greenhouse-gas-impact-of-each-food/

http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-factsheet

https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/summary-for-policymakers/

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-carbon-footprint-diet

Energy production and consumption is at the heart of environmental problems as modern society is dependent on fossil fuels.

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https://www.eea.europa.eu/signals/signals-2017/articles/energy-and-climate-change

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

http://physicsforidiots.com/physics/thermodynamics/

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/green-energy-dirty-side-effects-renewable-transition-climate-change-cobalt-mining-human-rights-inequality/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0032-9

Although a growing population represents a major ecological challenge, not all human beings can be held equally responsible for the ecological crisis.


https://www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/meat-and-animal-feed.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study

https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf

https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621052/mb-confronting-carbon-inequality-210920-es.pdf

https://populationmatters.org/the-facts/womens-rights

In this new episode we become aware of how our daily actions have a quantifiable environmental impact.

https://www.footprintnetwork.org/resources/data/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint

https://medium.com/@dimavitanova/dressed-in-co2-the-carbon-footprint-of-apparel-f8035f79456c

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

https://theecologist.org/2020/jan/29/meat-footprint-calculator

https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/media-backgrounder/

What is climate change, how serious is the situation and how quickly do we need to act? Undoubtedly, this is a very complex political and economic issue.

IPCC Report
https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

The Guardian - “Atmospheric carbon levels are leaping”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/11/atmospheric-carbon-levels-are-leaping-we-cant-afford-many-more-years-like-this

The Consensus Project
http://theconsensusproject.com/