I even wanted to start with a bitter joke on top but later cancelled it, not to confuse the reader. I wanted to “streamline” my text in the direction of a statement like “after all utopia conference is a good start (since we have to act!)”.

The joke: “One attendee asking the other: Well we all want to save the planet, but be honest: How many Lexus do *you* have in your garage?” (Lexus was sponsor).

So I am concerned that change of mind does not go deep enough. E.g. maybe individual-mobility-as-a-car will fail and in ten years the idea to “save the car industry” with billions could look totallly insane,

The question is, for an action oriented person like me, what falls into category A “yes-action” in detail? What are “good” actions in terms of avoiding climate change? I doubt that we really understand all consequences what we are doing in their entire complexity. If it only means greener consuming behaviours, that could turn backwards.

I found a nice example in the blog entry of Niels Boeing in the Technology Review (http://www.heise.de/tr/Der-Wahnwitz-des-Wachstums–/blog/artikel/117693), about how a 100 years ago the much more energy efficient tungsten filament in light bulbs replaced the carbon filament. As a result the tungsten became a successful mass product we are trying to get rid off today.

So maybe we need to reduce our consuming behaviour much more radical as we can think of today – if we are capable of doing this …