It’s pretty much 2 weeks since my departure from Scotland. Things were able to settle and restructure, and priorities became clear.
The most obvious thing I have to say: I totally lost all faith in the Old Power. The fact that not a single party is able to search beyond the capitalist economic framework for climate crisis solutions is nothing less than disillusioning. Money will not solve this crisis. Green Capitalism will not solve this crisis. Development and innovation alone will not solve this crisis.
The chat with the psychology professor from Cambridge still echoes in my mind. The fact that I didn’t follow his logic of money made him so mad that in the end he stood up and left the conversation angrily. Isn’t this telling everything about it?
Also, I am extremely disappointed about the Talktivist Movement. Playing by the rules is not leading anywhere. And how people in power within the movement are inhibiting change by sitting on their position, not looking beyond the horizon of their own structures… As if FFF alone will solve anything. In order to overcome the Old Power, we really need to interconnect our struggles, our structures, overcome the differences and focus on the common incentive.
Not all is negative though:
- I am extremely thankful about the opportunity to look so deeply into the decisive structures of the UNFCCC. Thank you, privileges. It’s important to know one’s enemy.
- The connections and friendships I gained are way beyond value.
- Scotland is beautiful! Glasgow is just another concrete jungle, but the Highlands and Midlands are great spaces.
- I can see the movement growing. “This was the first COP where the Parties were more afraid of the kids than of the press.”
So, I close this paragraph. What follows now is the documentation for the Max Planck Society, before I can close the whole chapter of COP26.
Thanks for following my journey.