Visuality of the Anthropocene E-Book

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 56

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This book presents contributions of students of the course "Science Writing and Journalism" of the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University in Ankara. They created posters and popular texts about renewable energies and related topics. The contributions are part of an exhibition which will be presented on Renewable Energy Events in five Turkish cities between October 2019 and January 2020 within the scope of the project "POWER: Empowerment of Youth on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Societies" which is funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union (2017-3-TR01-KA205-048402) which aims to encourage young people for a critical dialogue about renewable energy as a contribution to combat climate change.

Leseprobe

Index

Lutz Peschke

The Impacts Of Greta Thunberg On Environmental Communication In Germany

Seldağ Güneş Peschke

Environmental Law Clinics: Towards a New Era in Legal Education

M. Mert Örsler

Geothermie Is Super Hot And As Beautiful As Ever

Melina Diener, Marleen C. Schwalm, Manfred Schmidt, Ruben Düchting

Scheme Geothermal Power

Melina Diener, Marleen C. Schwalm, Manfred Schmidt, Ruben Düchting

Scheme Windpower

Simge Sadak

Pros And Cons Of Hydropower

Melina Diener, Marleen C. Schwalm, Manfred Schmidt, Ruben Düchting

Scheme Hydropower

Melina Diener, Marleen C. Schwalm, Manfred Schmidt, Ruben Düchting

Schemes Energy From Sunlights

Melina Diener, Marleen C. Schwalm, Manfred Schmidt, Ruben Düchting

Scheme Biomass

M. Mert Örsler

Nuclear Power Is Not Wanted In Turkey

Öykü Öncül

The Long Life Of Uranium

Nursan Akıncı

Urban City Life And Its Impact On Climate Change

Turan Bayrm

The Future Of Renewable Energies In Gulf Coutries

Orhun Ege Cansaran

Turkey Has No Need To Build Energy Plants Instantly. Forcasts Mostly Wrong!

Özgün Evrim Sayılkan

The Energy Potential Map Of Turkey

Rustam Guliyev

What If Neanderthals Come Back From Extinction?

Seyedehshahrzad Seyfafjehi

Energy Resources On Mars

Büşra Yücel

Shop With A Grain Of Salt

Ezgi Altınöz

Climate Change Is On Our Plate

Naz Alara Erbek

Carbon Capture Storage: Decrease Emissions – Increase Efficiency

Sardar Talal Khalid

A Letter To Oblivious Humans

Feyza Yılmaz

No More Gasoline Cars? The World Is Turning To Alternative Fuels - Turkey Is Not Falling Behind

Onurcan Boran

How The World And Turkey Sees Electrical Vehicles

About the Authors

THE IMPACTS OF GRETA THUNBERG ON ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION IN GERMANY

Lutz Peschke1

When Greta Thunberg started her protest outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 and fought for immediate cautions to combat climate change, she was fifteen years old. Her school strike every Friday attracted media attention. Her media publicity resulted in a big school strike for climate movement. Since March 2019, all around the world in more than 100 countries, around 1.4 million students protest every Friday for the future of our habitat. The #FridayForFuture movement was born. Greta Thunberg exploited her popularity to give a voice to environmental activists. She gave a speech within the scope of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in December 2018 in Katowice/Poland and other important meetings. But the feedback in politics, academia, media and society was ambivalent and should be described shortly in the case of Germany.

On the one hand, German politicians appreciated the engagement of young people for the environment. Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that the politics can reach the goal only, if they are supported by the society and that she supports the #FridayForFurture activities accordingly (Welt 2019, t=15s). The Federal Minister of Justice Katarina Barley’s statement is similar and she commented that the voice of the youth should be strengthened. Therefore, she is in favour of voting rights from minimum age of 16 (ibid., t=41s) considering that 15.5 % of the electorates are between 18 and 30 but 20.7% are older than 70 (Der Bundeswahlleiter 2017). It reveals that the retired citizens in Germany have more influence on shaping the future then the youth. On the other side, the politics reacts refusing and distrustful on the youth activities and protests. Lindner a politician of the liberal party (FDP) posted a tweet that he likes and welcomes the political activities of the students but nobody can expect that young people understand the global context of the technical meaningful and economical feasible. This is the business of professionals (Lindner, 2019). He reduces the young people to the role of the participating audience while the actors in the arena are players from politics, industry and academicia. With this comment, he neglects the existing model of Quadruple Helix collaboration where the ‘media-based and culture-based public’ and ‘civil society’ is the fourth player in the collaborative process. According to Carayannis et al. the “natural environments of society and the economy also should be seen as [fifth] drivers for knowledge production and innovation” inside of a quintuple helix (Carayannis et al. 2012). Kramp-Karrenbauer, chair-lady of the conservative (CDU) complained that she would find it more convincing, if the students would not only fight for the climate during the class time but in their leisure time (phonix 2019). TV science moderator and medical doctor Hirschhausen commented Kramp-Karrenbauer’s statement that he cannot remember that pilots, locomotive drivers or unionists proceeded their strikes in their leisure time. The idea to request that our society needs a change needs the pressure of #FridayForFuture strikes (Jung 2019, t=2037s). Additionally, several comments of politicians present the ‘FridayForFuture activities in the light of conspirations. Merkel stated within the scope of the Munich Security Conference in February 2019 in the context of hydrid warfare of Russia in the internet, that it is difficult that all German kids are able to get the idea for a protest at the same time without any influence from outside. Campaigns can be organized much easier with help of the internet (AG Kinder- & Jugendrechte 2019).

Since many years, scientists agree that the industrial revolution in the 19th century increased the impact of humankind on the climate change exponentially. Especially because of the high anthropogenic emission of carbon dioxide, global climate change is not anymore