It flows through my veins It sleeps in my tears
I'm running from the ears
heart and kidneys are motors
Rammstein: Benzin, 2005
C. Leggett / H. Welzer: The end of the world as we knew it . Climate, the future and the opportunities of democracy. FfM 2009th
The fossil fuels were the fuel of the industrial age. Without the radical exploitation of the resulting in millions of carbon stocks in the Take-Off in the industrial modernity would have been unthinkable. On the basis of coal, oil and gas is based not only the technical history of progress in industrial nations. The seemingly endless availability of fossil fuels has fueled decades, a conceptual model that can be imagined the development of civilization of mankind only as an endless upward movement in a potentially infinite space of economic development.
The threat of climate change, this form of economy is in crisis, which - judging by the one the furthest flung scenarios - could threaten the survival of humanity. In her new book, The End of the world as we knew her circle of social psychologist Harald Welzer and political scientist Claus Leggewie the theme of climate change to a cumulative global Metakrise crisis scenarios of environmental, energy and food sectors. The prevailing dilatory Style of politics - the shifting of the problems on to future generations and the resulting unrestrained future consumption - offering, say the authors, the worst possible condition in order to be ready with the looming crisis scenarios.
Welzer Leggett and examine the cultural attitudes and social-psychological conditions, returns in the developed the framework for the economic and political action and for dealing with the crisis. They make clear that the necessary rate changes can be managed by political institutions alone unlikely the necessary cultural change depends rather on a willingness to strengthen individual responsibility. The authors also contradict the thesis that the next challenges are to deal only authoritative structures. To overcome the dependence on fossil fuels - not understood as a technological, but cultural problem - if only as part of a strengthening of civil society to implement democratic self-understanding of society.
"On the horizon of the Great Transformation is a post-Carboniferous society with radically different social, political and cultural settings." (P. 13)
In the following chapters of the book should be examined.
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