Climate activism today isn't selfish enough. #climatechange is a threat to yourself, people you love, and parts of the world that you care about. You should treat it as a matter of immediate personal interest, and act accordingly. Instead, people are treating the activism like a moral obligation.

The #climate movement loses every battle it fights against polluters and indifferents. This is due to three fundamental strategic errors: 1: Planning with unrealized resources. 2: Not controlling the success criteria. 3: Letting the opponent select the field of battle. Let's talk about error #3.

People over-consume because it gives them positive emotions. To get emissions down, climate activists must find effective ways to turn these into negative emotions. Consumption will only ever go down when people stop wanting it.

The #climate movement loses every battle it fights against polluters and indifferents. This is due to three fundamental strategic errors: 1: Planning with unrealized resources. 2: Not controlling the success criteria. 3: Letting the opponent select the field of battle. Let's talk about error #2.

Simplified explanation of a #tradewar: Imagine you're very good at building houses, and I'm very good at cooking. It makes sense for us to divide labor so that you build houses for the both of us, and I cook for both. This is what international trade is like.

The #climate movement loses every battle it fights against polluters and indifferents. This is due to three fundamental strategic errors: 1: Planning with unrealized resources. 2: Not controlling the success criteria. 3: Letting the opponent select the field of battle. Let's talk about error #1.

The defeat of #greenpeace in North Dakota court demonstrates the weakness of centralized environmental organizations against powerful industries. Big oil serves an energy-addicted society, providing it with fuel, and society protects it in return.

A common objection to reduced #overconsumption is unemployment. Reduced demand for luxury products and services will cause large numbers of people to lose their jobs. This is true. Specifically, it will free up labor for more important purposes.

Trump's tariff war is coming. Economies will be grinding to a halt as the exchange of materials and components is essentially blocked. This will hurt badly, and pointless consumption will be the first shave. Ironically, the tariff war might do more for the climate than the Paris agreement.

The lack of large-scale #climate effort is not caused by poor morals, or laziness, or evil. It's caused by the lack of a plan that is believable for sincere and reasonable people. There are thousands of approaches and initiatives, none of them suited for dealing with the problem on a global scale.

#climate activists are banging their heads against the twin rock walls of government and industry, expecting them to move from the sheer power of righteousness. They have been doing so for decades, with no results. A fundamental analysis of power and its sources is missing.

The solution void is a collective state of mind where the lack of a plausible #climate solution within anyone's reach, is secretly on everyone's mind. The futility of the situation turns climate action into a performance with no logical connection to an end of the crisis.

Donald Trump was made president by a US voting majority as a consequence of a new form of economical crisis that has struck the West, and which is poorly understood. The choices made by societies driving for overconsumption has shifted the focus of economical activity away from crucial functions.

Global warming is caused by the combined industrial output from upper and middle class consumption. To stop the catastrophe, demand needs to go down. Here is a guide for action: konsumogklima.no