Texts – research and media

Short texts about FridaysForFuture and a new global united movement

1 The world is on fire. Here is a suggestion for the core of a new global political movement: https://medium.com/@davidfopp/the-core-of-a-united-global-movement-reacting-to-the-ecological-and-climate-crisis-aeaea45c4108

2 Intergenerational fight for climate justice and a sustainable world – PeopleForFuture

3 Which rules for a sustainable world do we need and how do we get them into place? https://medium.com/@davidfopp/which-rules-for-a-sustainable-world-do-we-need-and-how-do-we-get-them-into-place-c0f805978f86

4 How a declaration of climate emergency should look like https://medium.com/@davidfopp/how-to-formulate-the-declaration-of-climate-emergency-e0f6f5f5729a

5 Where we are and where to go – FridaysForFuture, ExtinctionRebellion and a global political movement https://medium.com/@davidfopp/where-we-are-and-where-to-go-some-sketchy-thoughts-about-the-climate-crisis-the-young-37685e15783f

6 We, the people and the living planet – on the missing article in the UN-charter https://medium.com/@davidfopp/we-need-a-new-foundation-of-the-un-in-a-new-charter-article-about-all-peoples-relation-to-nature-a43b3fdd39dd

7 How to change the universities – what the climate and ecological crisis means for the academic subjects and teaching methods. A ScientistsForFuture-approach: https://medium.com/@davidfopp/wie-weiter-scientistsforfuture-85c99a4d26c0

8 I co-lead the coordination of the following text: The statement by the ScientistsForFuture on the draft for an European climate regulation:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03102952/?fbclid=IwAR2lK1I_iUqA5oyXo6JvO5rM_GG3-JqC9wkVSQZ52VXd4lt2kA-q5sO2OEg

Newspaper articles written by David Fopp about FridaysForFuture and ExtinctionRebellion, climate activism and a new global political movement

9 About the youth climate movement, civil disobedience, and “Antigone”: DN-article (in swedish)

10 About the school-strikes:

11 About a new understanding of the role of the university and academic education and research in times of ecological and climate crisis:

https://www.etc.se/debatt/universiteten-maste-gora-studenterna-klimatmedvetna

12 About the needed reaction by the civil society to the youth strike (April 24, 2020): https://tidningensyre.se/2020/24-april/de-ungas-framtid-klimatstrejk-i-coronatider/

13 About the silence by the politicians and the justice asepct of the global strike movement for a sustainable future (September 24, 2020)

https://www.etc.se/debatt/bryt-tystnaden-om-klimatkrisen-politiker

14 About the idea of a “people for future”, a global fossil non-proliferation treaty, the Stockholm+50-conference and the youth global strike #FightFor1Point5:

https://www.etc.se/debatt/det-ar-dags-att-stodja-de-ungas-nya-upprop

15 Together with 40 scientists about the problem with “net zero”-targets and climate “compensation”/offsetting:

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/12/11/10-myths-net-zero-targets-carbon-offsetting-busted/

16 Article in the Swedish newspaper ETC about People ForFuture:

https://www.etc.se/debatt/vi-accepterar-inte-fler-tomma-loften

17 What should happen at COP26?

https://medium.com/@davidfopp/what-should-happen-at-cop26-34db570ffcaf

18 Article about the demands for a Swedish (climate) politics which is in line with Paris, signed by 16 organizations including greenpeace and friends of the earth

www.etc.se/debatt/sverige-maste-gora-mer-vi-kan-inte-vanta-25-ar-pa-att-losa-klimatkrisen

19 On intersectionality and the climate crisis: https://t.co/AiZR8BQ6VY?amp=1:

20 What should happen at COP?

21 Universities have to introduce new global principles for research ethics: https://theconversation.com/the-climate-crisis-gives-science-a-new-role-heres-how-research-ethics-must-change-too-171201

Background information about the FridaysForFuture movement – interviews:

1 “Team Greta”, Tagesanzeiger, Switzerland, 16. Januar 2020: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/das-team-hinter-greta/story/11543257

2 A 60 min Interview in Swiss Radio SRF, 29 Juni 2020:

https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/focus/david-fopp-die-klimakrise-wird-nicht-als-krise-behandelt

3 Interview in German radio deutschlandfunk/Corso:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/zukunft-von-fridays-for-future-durch-die-pandemie-ist-ein.807.de.html?dram:article_id=492459

4 Spiegel Jahreschronik 2019: https://www.spiegel.de/plus/greta-thunberg-das-verstoerende-maedchen-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000167197968

5 Backgroundinformation about FFF for the German radio ARD/NDR:

https://www.ndr.de/ndrkultur/sendungen/feature/Feature-Greta-bringt-die-Welt-in-Ordnung,audio598132.html

6 Interview in Swiss newspaper Tagblatt:

https://www.tagblatt.ch/kultur/ostschweizerkultur/buch-als-stgaller-jugendforscher-mitten-in-der-globalen-klimastreik-bewegung-ld.2119615?reduced=true

7 Interview in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter:

https://www.dn.se/sthlm/klimatdemonstration-i-stockholm-vi-kan-inte-lata-barn-och-unga-kampa-ensamma/?fbclid=IwAR0lRIuD-xnP5D9ZRubnzsY3WJo1cjrsf47YzuLUuiMzbj9vVqqlZdh-5s4

8 Interview in Swiss newspaper SAITEN:

9 Four dialogue-events by the Naturkunde Museum Berlin around our book on intergenerational climate justice and a PeopleForFuture movement: