Climate change and global warming catastrophes

• Development, pollution, and resource extraction

• Do believe anything necessary

• Warming trends and fluctuations in temperature: affect the poles in the majority

• CO2 and the general temperature warming

• Average 180-280/300 equivalent gases in the atmosphere (CO2)

• in 2020 reduction of 80% in CO2 emotions to be in the safe zone= did not happen

• 650ppm:extinction level, in 2022 we are at 419 ppm

Issue: we have the technology to reduce the green emissions

Want to engage in action and change moving forward- be angry

Can we reduce human suffering and protect ecosystems and species?

• “There is something within the human spirit that resonates when doing what is right and just for planer and people- it is not an externally driven frame or positionality, it is a resonate connectedness with the very fabric of nature”

• healing effects of nature in the sense of wellbeing

• Chaos theory: fracture structures of the body resonate with the factual stricture of nature, deep connection with nature

• global issue: treat it as a collective

• disregard for the nature

Key assumptions for Environmental Leadership

1. Climate change/global warming is but one of many interrelated problems facing our planet

2. the state of the world is gonna get worse, much, much, much worse

3. the arch of the universe doe snot likely bend towards justice, nor will it into the future

4. recognizing and confronting the widespread destruction of our planet and the scope of ecocide and genocide takes immense psychological courage

5. creating and painting resilient systems are critical for human flourishing

6. effective environmental leaders recognize the value of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives

7. Conservation, preservation, and regeneration of nature are key to long-term human health and survival

8. the foundation of all life is energy transformation

9. technology will not save us but can mitigate some of the challenges moving forward.

10. environmental leadership is alive and thriving, but not without danger and risk of death

rewilding: source of restoration, rebalancing the ecosystem, reintroduction of species

50 by 50: we need half of the land protected, and designated wilderness to better the planet

Environmental leadership: knowledge domains

• legal/political

• worldview/ideology/theory

• biological/ chemical

• Ecoliteracy and education

• preservation and conservation

• culture and community

• climate and justice

• scientific/ technical

Legal political issues: who should decide who is going to be involved in the issue?

• ex. fires in California, so a person in Colorado should have been included in the conversation, is he being affected by it?

• who should speak for nature? an ecosystem that doesn’t have a voice, to bring legal action you have to have standing

Social issues

• religion has been an enemy of the environment, significant shift over the years

• a personal contribution vs the corporations = we need system change but also an individual behavioral change

• people stand up for their principles

• economical issues vs environmental care: jobs that expose people to danger but they have to “feed their family”

Leadership action, Environmental heroes

1. environmental nonprofits: conservation Colorado, Sierra Club, Greenpeace

2. 11 Well-known conservationists (Leopold, Carson, Roosevelt)

3. Jane Goodall- roots and shoot program

4. Environmentalists under threat, risk, and murder In 2018 more than 200 climate activists were murdered, by “I am Greta”

5. National Park system, U.S and globally

6. CNN’s Environmental Heroes 2021

Concluding factors

• more about regulating rather than prohibiting

• ask the question: What if society stops doing…?

• Consuming resources at rates we have never seen before

• everything we value makes the problem worse: health and vaccines save people but increase the overpopulation

• We are in a problem but there is hope