Hvorfor vi er uenige om klimaendring
For tiden leser jeg boka ”Why we disagree about climate change” skrevet av vitenskapsmann og samfunnskommentator Mike Hulme. Hulme argumenterer for at klimaendring er et fenomen som omdefinerer hvordan mennesker forholder seg til hverandre og til verden.
Andrew Holt er sivilarkitekt RIBA MNAL og partner i arkitektkontoret Architectopia AS. Andrew jobber med prosjektering, rådgivning og formidling innen bærekraftig arkitektur. Han er kursleder for NAL Startpakke kurs og sertifisert BREEAM rådgiver (BREEAM NOR AP).
I forordet skriver Steve Rayne, professor ved universitetet i Oxford:
Climate change provides a much needed arena and stimulus for public discussion of the big issues of our time. It has become the key narrative within which political issues from the local to the global are framed. In that sense, debate around climate has succeeded debate around capital and social class as the organising theme of political discourse in contemporary society.
Videre skriver Hulme:
Our discordant conversations about climate change reveal, at a deeper level, all that makes for diversity, creativity and conflict within the human story – our different attitudes to risk, technology and well-being; our different ethical, ideological and political beliefs, our different interpretations of the past and our competing visions of the future.
The full story of climate change is the unfolding story of an idea and how this idea is changing the way we think, feel and act. Not only is climate change altering our physical world, but the idea of climate change is altering our social worlds.
For at man ikke skal misforstå hvor alvorlig han mener klimaendring er skriver Hulme:
I believe that the risks posed to people and places by the physical attributes of climate change are tangible, are serious, and require constantly improving forms of human intervention and management. We do well to minimise these risks by reducing the vulnerability of those exposed to them and by minimising further changes to the composition of the world’s atmosphere.
Hulme argumenterer for at klimaendring tvinger frem nye modeller for hvordan mennesker kan leve sammen i verden. Han mener at de samfunnsmessige konsekvenser av klimaendring er like omfattende som de fysiske konsekvensene.
Oslo arkitekturtriennale 2013 tar for seg forståelse for begrepet bærekraft. Jeg tror vi kan se frem til mangfoldige, kreative og muligens konfliktfulle diskusjoner omkring ulike forståelser av klimaendring og bærekraft.