"Virtually every aspect of human behaviour is now judged by how much carbon it produces. If you have a baby, that’s 10 tonnes of carbon every year for the next 80-odd years. If you fly to Australia on holiday, that’s another five tonnes of carbon. If you eat a steak, you are supposed to think about how much forest area was cleared to allow the cow to graze, how much methane the cow expelled while it was alive, how many ‘food miles’ it took to get the steak to your plate, and – bam! – it all adds up to another four tonnes of carbon."
(Brendan O'Neill, Spiked, 2010)

It is this huge contrast between our banal everyday activities and the associated dire consequences it shall have on the climate that leaves us puzzled, unbelieving, uncertain.

How are we to respond to a new idea of man which sees human activity mainly from an environmentalist's point of view? How are we to react to the collective offence that climate change (with all its negative impacts) is man made?

I devised several fictitious documents from potential futures that ask these questions and hint to the often complicated psychological dimensions when dealing with climate change. I also held a similarly spirited design workshop with students from the University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, dealing with possible 'Energy Futures'. Check out the results here!

CREDITS
Thanks to: Reto Wettach, Jonathan Cohen

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2011
provocation, scenarios
A4 documents