Thread by @SteB777

Please see this video of @jrockstrom's presentation at COP26 summing up the figures. He says to keep within the 1.5C carbon budget that the richest 1% need to reduce their emissions by a factor of 30. The video starts at that point.🧵
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https://twitter.com/brigittevangerv/status/1482384782730346502

What @jrockstrom is saying, and he is likely the world's leading expert on this aspect of the problem, is only massive cuts to consumption and emissions, by the richest people in the world, can keep us within the 1.5C carbon budget. This is about climate equity.
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This is genuinely about solutions. One important aspect of any realistic solution is that the extravagant consumption and emissions of a tiny proportion of the richest people in society, just have to be cut.
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Solutions to a complex interconnected problem like the climate and ecological crisis actually involve a complex web of solutions, including profound changes to the current system.
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You see, if you prevent such massive and disproportional consumption and emissions by the richest people in society, by whatever means, you will have profoundly changed society/the system. You need a much better grasp of systems thinking to understand this.
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I've been trying to understand why we have been failing to address this crisis for many decades. After a massive amount of thinking, reading and research, I have come to very clear conclusions about basic thinking faults in our culture i.e. cultural beliefs about thinking
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The primary one, being a failure to understand effective problem solving. The chief one of these faults, is when confronted with a problem, to just speculatively start throwing out solutions, without any real attempt to understand the problem.
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Whilst this can sometimes work with fairly simple systems like a vehicle, an electronic device etc, where you just replace certain components and hope that fixes the problem, it doesn't work with complex problems, and complex systems. Also this approach is not reliable.
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There is very little understanding of systems theory and thinking in our modern culture, even with scientists. Once again, you cannot solve complex and messy problems, with this crude approach of just throwing up solutions.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_t…

You see, I am not just throwing out random objections to your suggested approach. Once again, you have failed to provide one single reference for your assertions. I have. But you just ignore them because you think you know best.
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learningforsustainability.net/systems-thinki…

Just thinking you know best, without examining what the leading and often collaborative experts say about this, and the evidence and science it is based upon, is not away to find effective solutions to complex problems like the climate and ecological crisis.
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I am not speculating here. When I have pointed to the need to understand this complex problem, before you start randomly throwing out solutions, you have just rejected this out of hand, demonstrating you have no knowledge of systems theory and rigorous problem solving.
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