Impressions of another day of new input, discussion and exchange. Some of today's topics: socio-environmental roots of #crops, weeds, about the understanding of #gender, the influence of #stereotypes in science, #resources as a driver for #societalchange, coastal or maritime #archaeology, and many more. We are looking forward to tomorrow 🙂 #KielScales23

"Don't lower your ground if you live close to the sea" - take-home message by #ClusterRoots member Bente Majchczack after his presentation "Medieval peat quarrying for salt production in the coastal marshes of #NorthFrisia" as part of the session "Between #OverExploitation and #sustainability: Extraction of #resources as a driver for #societalchange and #inequality"
#waddensea

If we can step into the citizen future, we will be able to face our myriad challenges: economic insecurity, ecological emergency, public health threats, political polarisation, and more. We will be able to build a future. 
#citizen #society #future #SocietalChange #engagement

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220803-citizen-future-why-we-need-a-new-story-of-self-and-society?s=09

Framing environmental deterioration as the result of poor individual choices—littering, leaving the lights on when we leave a room, failing to car-pool—not only distracts us from identifying and demanding change from the real drivers of environmental decline. It also removes these issues from the political realm to the personal, implying that the solution is in our personal choices rather than in better policies, business practices, and structural context.

-- Annie Leonard, "Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change"

http://www.pfree.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Moving-from-Individual-Change-to-Societal-Change-Annie-Leonard-2013.pdf

#AnnieLeonard #SocietalChange #IndividualResponsibilityFallacy #RiskShifting #ResponsibilityShifting