I wish I could ask all three of them this question. One of the points that was never fully addressed in any of the interviews was how corruption and overall government inefficiency (more in the administrative sector and in all levels) affected the endeavors in slowing climate change or climate change mitigation. This question is extremely relevant to me because while we heard a lot of success stories in the interviews, we did not really hear about the places where people are not doing enough (at least not in depth); and Brazil is a country known (at least by Brazilians themselves) to have an immense ability to not do things properly. So my two-part-ish question would go something along the lines of: are there any success stories coming from places with historically bad public policy? Be it because of corruption, inefficiency or incompetence from policymakers. Also, if there have been, what seemed to the trigger for it? The overall population, specialists, some great politician, the private sector, the "third sector" or "voluntary sector" (NGOs or other non-profit companies), or some combination of these?
I would likely ask this question to Dr. Dan Kammen, as from his interview it seemed that he had a lot of experience in examining other place's responses or solutions to climate change.
Hi Pedro! I don't wanna say I had the same question, but I had the same question! In so many of the videos, these experts bring up how what they're doing is being shown to politicians and big corporations. However, very few of them go into detail on if and how these efforts have been successful. I think had more of them given examples of the positive and seeable changes that have come out of their efforts, these interviews and the future of Climate Change could perhaps be looked at more brightly.
I am also very interested in the politics of climate change. I am specifically interested in a very odd paradox in the Democratic party. In one of the debates when the primary candidates were asked what the most important issue of our time was, by far the most common answer was climate change. Yet we have seen little to no effort to try to make a carbon dividend or some other major climate bill one of the major policy efforts of the Biden administration. I would have loved to get a specific answer to why some of the experts believe this paradox exists.