{"id":2497,"date":"2018-11-25T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeaftercarbon.net\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2018-11-25T08:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T13:30:48","slug":"awakening-emergence-of-climate-leadership-from-silent-spring-to-inconvenient-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/2018\/11\/awakening-emergence-of-climate-leadership-from-silent-spring-to-inconvenient-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakening: Emergence of Climate Leadership from Silent Spring to Inconvenient Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from <\/i>Life After Carbon, chapter 2, “Urban\u00a0Climate Innovation Laboratories”\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Before climate change arrived in the headlines in the late 1980s,\u00a0the groundwork for climate leadership had been laid. The\u00a0creators of urban climate innovation labs span three overlapping\u00a0generations, each of which experienced its own jolt of awakening\u00a0and urgent call to action.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Those who are in their sixties, seventies, or eighties were present\u00a0when the environmental movement came\u00a0to life, assembling for\u00a0the first Earth Day in 1970, spurred by biologist Rachel Carson\u2019s\u00a01962 book, Silent Spring<\/em>, which warned of the dire impact of pesticides, and by the mounting, visible crises caused by hazardous and\u00a0toxic industrial processes.<\/p>\n

City innovators in their forties and fifties, many of whom are\u00a0entering positions of substantial authority in government, business,\u00a0and the civil sector, were coming of age when a 1987 United\u00a0Nations report, \u201cOur \"\"Common Future\u201d\u2014known\u00a0as the Brundtland\u00a0Report after its chair, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway\u2019s\u00a0first female prime minister\u2014put\u00a0a new idea onto society\u2019s radar\u00a0screen. It offered \u201csustainable development\u201d as an overarching\u00a0concept in which the use of physical ecosystems and renewable\u00a0resources would occur \u201cwithin the limits of regeneration and naturalgrowth.\u201d Brundtland called for action by all nations but also\u00a0signaled the importance of cities: \u201cThe most immediate environmental\u00a0concerns of most people will be urban ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

These two generations were joined by a third generation of innovators\u00a0that arrived after the dawn of climate-change\u00a0awareness.\u00a0The commitment of countless numbers of twenty-and\u00a0thirty-year-old\u00a0innovators, many of\"\" whom are raising young children,\u00a0was sparked by Al Gore\u2019s 2006 documentary film, An Inconvenient\u00a0Truth<\/em>, which detailed the advent of global warming, argued that\u00a0the means were available to reverse the trend if only there was the\u00a0political will to act, and called on viewers to take personal responsibility\u00a0for solving the problem.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from Life After Carbon, chapter 2, “Urban\u00a0Climate Innovation Laboratories”\u00a0 Before climate change arrived in the headlines in the late 1980s,\u00a0the groundwork for climate leadership had been laid. The\u00a0creators of urban climate innovation labs span three overlapping\u00a0generations, each of which experienced its own jolt of awakening\u00a0and urgent call to action.\u00a0 Those who are in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-rebel-alliance","category-urban-climate-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}