It’s not enough to be right! The climate crisis, power, and the climate movement

Angela Pohlmann; Kerstin Walz; Anita Engels; Stefan C. Aykut; Sören Altstaedt; Arwen Colell; Udo Dietrich; Hauke Feddersen; Annabarbara Friedrich; Jan Klenke; Franziska Krieger; Felix Schenuit; Alvine Datchoua-Tirvaudey; Markus Schulz; Cathrin Zengerling

doi:10.14512/gaia.30.4.5

It’s not enough to be right! The climate crisis, power, and the climate movement

Angela Pohlmann, Kerstin Walz, Anita Engels, Stefan C. Aykut, Sören Altstaedt, Arwen Colell, Udo Dietrich, Hauke Feddersen, Annabarbara Friedrich, Jan Klenke, Franziska Krieger, Felix Schenuit, Alvine Datchoua-Tirvaudey, Markus Schulz, Cathrin Zengerling

Abstract

The demands of the climate movement - for rapid and profound change - are based on scientific findings and the political commitments to the Paris Agreement. The activists are, therefore, factually “right”. However, being right is not enough to justify or to accelerate the practical implementation of knowledge and decisions. We explain which social factors are at work, and how the climate movement can benefit if they incorporate these factors into actions for social change.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	231-236
Number of pages	6
Journal	GAIA : Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.4.5
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

climate movement
climate protection
democracy
political process
social change

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Pohlmann, A., Walz, K., Engels, A., Aykut, S. C., Altstaedt, S., Colell, A., Dietrich, U., Feddersen, H., Friedrich, A., Klenke, J., Krieger, F., Schenuit, F., Datchoua-Tirvaudey, A., Schulz, M., & Zengerling, C. (2021). It’s not enough to be right! The climate crisis, power, and the climate movement. GAIA : Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 30(4), 231-236. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.4.5

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