SUPER DEBATE. Souvik Mukherjee + Josi Paz. Interview with Mike Hulme on Climate Change and Consumption.

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Souvik Mukherjee and Josi Paz 
interview Mike Hulme on 
climate change and consumption.


Theory, Culture & Society Blog.


Read more to find out his views on the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), on advocating a polycentric 'messy' approach to climate change, and on the role of the climate change 'expert'.


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TCS: How do you see your own perspective about the climate change debate, especially in relation to other perspectives, both academic and otherwise?

Mike Hulme: My understanding of climate change as a phenomenon and my beliefs about forms of political and action around climate change have altered considerably during my career (25 years and counting).  It is important to approach climate change as much as an idea of the human imagination as it is a physical construct to be studied and predicted. Both are important and in particular these two approaches get entangled.  My approach is therefore more attractive it seems to non-physical scientists than it is to physical scientists.  Some environmental campaigners and advocates also think that my position is too passive; others think I am a denier, whilst still others castigate me as being inside the corrupted and contaminated corridors of the ‘climate change establishment’.  So I get all types of reactions.

TCS: Conscientious/Ethical consumption as an approach has become more ‘popular’ nowadays, not only in the EU but also in countries, such as Brazil, where the consumer society has grown significantly. There's a kind of consensus about the idea that consuming conscientiously can help in facing climate change. How do you view this as an expression of environmental concerns?

MH: Yes, but this is a tiny part of material consumption when measured globally.  Ethical consumption as a proportion of world gross production is tiny and on its own is not going to overturn the growth curve in carbon emissions.  For this, what is needed is huge investment to innovate and accelerate low carbon affordable energy.


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