Deep Dives: Doomed versus Scalable Ideas

Dr Robért reflects on the new EU directives for sustainability reportingThis is a huge opportunity for the world, given the EUs stance in sustainability matters. If organizational reporting is informed by the FSSD, the (i) enlightened self-interest of the individual organization, as well as the (ii) positive impact on the world, will be heavily leveraged.

Dr Robért reflects on animal ethics. How does the FSSD relate to animal ethics? Used in the right way the robust boundary conditions for Sustainability cover all aspects of animal ethics as well.

Kalle reflects on the relevance of the Low Consumption Society as opposed to large systemic changes. Since the dawn of the sustainability movement in the late 60s, activists and others have repeatedly called for people in the wealthy countries of the west to adopt more modest, low-consumption lifestyles and cultures. Modesty is good. However, appeals to reducing consumption at the individual level, per se, has relatively little promise as regards transitioning towards a sustainable future.

CO2 equivalents is a useful term for climatologists when comparing the relative heating-effect between various green house gases. But the term may also be confusing and even misleading in the public discourse, just like Carbon Capture Storage (CCS), ancient events of climate change and many more.

The consequences of modelling possible futures within boundary conditions of sustainability are many. Most of them are growing in importance of todays societal discourse, for instance the need to electrify traffic and get rid of fossil and nuclear fuels. But one remains poorly understood, or not understood at all, spatial planning.

Doktor Karl-Henrik Robért menar att kärnkraft inte har någon hållbar framtid, främst på grund av dess i sig linjära och ohållbara bearbetning av radioaktiva material. Han belyser hur hela livscykeln, från resursutvinning uppströms till de oundvikliga läckage och avfallsströmmarna nedströms, leder till ständigt ökande kostnader och risker.For the english language version of this podcast, listen to episode 8: The perilous future of nuclear power.