The Yellow Dot studios videos are great aren't they? I found them looking for climate humour, which I thought I might write about at some stage, along with climate change art. But you've given me a great idea for another resource collection I should put together - resources which look at the contributions that individual countries make to climate change. There are many different ways to look at the issue, in terms of emissions, in terms of progress towards reducing emissions, various initiatives etc. I've seen quite a few good ones recently.
I love them so much! They fill such a gap in the climate communication world. Same with climate art - capturing the public's imagination of what could be, not what is.
I would love to read something on that topic. I found it especially interesting that the emissions produced when manufacturing the items we buy are attributed to the country of origin, not to the consumer who bought it. That makes sense at first glance I guess, but it means that the emissions from getting the materials, manufacturing, packaging, and shipping those things are not attributed to us at all even though we drove that demand through our consumption. That really highlighted to me how much our current systems of measuring country emissions, and also our "out of sight, out of mind" approach to where, how, and who is producing the goods we consume, really fall short of the sustainable future we need. Clearly something much bigger and more systemic than an ethical shopping trend is needed.
Sorry for my delayed response. I've found that there is a figure which takes our consumption into account. I've put a bit about it in this week's article which was inspired by yours this week.
The way the world currently calculates a countries emissions .. we only count emissions from the goods produced in the country.
Rather we should calculate them based on a country’s consumption…it is so convenient China manufactures most of what the world consumes and they are deemed Chinas emissions!
If we did calculate emissions based on consumption …and Kate Raworth has done this (see her presentation to NZ Treasury 2 mths ago) New Zealand is the 4th highest emitter in the world.
Yes! Thank you for chipping in with this, I mention in my reply to Melanie above but I couldn't find the stat (although I love Kate Raworth's work). That is nuts that we are the 4th highest emitter when you take our consumption into account. But unfortunately it makes sense given how habits around hyperconsumption, fast fashion, planned obsolescence, eating meat every meal etc. have just become the norm.
The Yellow Dot studios videos are great aren't they? I found them looking for climate humour, which I thought I might write about at some stage, along with climate change art. But you've given me a great idea for another resource collection I should put together - resources which look at the contributions that individual countries make to climate change. There are many different ways to look at the issue, in terms of emissions, in terms of progress towards reducing emissions, various initiatives etc. I've seen quite a few good ones recently.
I love them so much! They fill such a gap in the climate communication world. Same with climate art - capturing the public's imagination of what could be, not what is.
I would love to read something on that topic. I found it especially interesting that the emissions produced when manufacturing the items we buy are attributed to the country of origin, not to the consumer who bought it. That makes sense at first glance I guess, but it means that the emissions from getting the materials, manufacturing, packaging, and shipping those things are not attributed to us at all even though we drove that demand through our consumption. That really highlighted to me how much our current systems of measuring country emissions, and also our "out of sight, out of mind" approach to where, how, and who is producing the goods we consume, really fall short of the sustainable future we need. Clearly something much bigger and more systemic than an ethical shopping trend is needed.
Sorry for my delayed response. I've found that there is a figure which takes our consumption into account. I've put a bit about it in this week's article which was inspired by yours this week.
The way the world currently calculates a countries emissions .. we only count emissions from the goods produced in the country.
Rather we should calculate them based on a country’s consumption…it is so convenient China manufactures most of what the world consumes and they are deemed Chinas emissions!
If we did calculate emissions based on consumption …and Kate Raworth has done this (see her presentation to NZ Treasury 2 mths ago) New Zealand is the 4th highest emitter in the world.
Yes! Thank you for chipping in with this, I mention in my reply to Melanie above but I couldn't find the stat (although I love Kate Raworth's work). That is nuts that we are the 4th highest emitter when you take our consumption into account. But unfortunately it makes sense given how habits around hyperconsumption, fast fashion, planned obsolescence, eating meat every meal etc. have just become the norm.
Melanie @TheTurnstone you might be interested in Kate Raworth's presentation to the treasury as a reference if you decide to write on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZwuw8gos4&ab_channel=NewZealandTreasury
Kate Raworth … to NZ Treasury
https://youtu.be/ciZwuw8gos4
Hey Clubbies, love your stuff, always intelligent, well researched. Peace, Maurice
Thanks Maurice!
Thanks for the LCANZI plug Jenny and Co! Keep up the great work 🤩🤩
Same to you, thank you for all your great mahi!