Choices We Make: Rethinking Decision-making in the Context of Climate Crisis

Patrick Waeber; Natasha Stoudmann; Jaboury Ghazoul; Lucienne Wilmé; Jeffrey Sayer; Carlos Nobre; John Innes; Claude Garcia

doi:10.20944/preprints202001.0339.v1

Comment 1

Received: 29 January 2020
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Patrick Waeber

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Comment: I wonder how we (we as in science, citizen, any kind of stakeholder really) can make the step from Concerned to Architect (see Figure 1), or how an Architect can "convince" the Concerned to make the transition towards sustainability? Also, what are the transition costs in doing so?

Another line of thought... If a political leader has to deal with many more "urgent" (pressing, immediate) issues such as a virus outbreak, or high rates of unemployment, or impeachment for that matter... basically if he/ she has no "time" (e.g., human or economic resources, or willingness, or simply, no time as in different priority) to devote to the growing evidence of climate change and thus takes no actions in this regard... what archetype would he/ she be in?

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Response 1 to Comment 1

Received: 30 January 2020
Commenter:

Claude A Garcia

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Comment: A policy maker that understands the issues, accepts its severity but is tied by more urgent matters is in the Lobbyst Archtype. There are omore pressing matters to them. Their possible "positive" strategy is to delegate. Similarly, a poor farmers struggling to feed his or her family falls under the same category and the best they can do is hope others deal with the issue. There are very valuable and respectable reasons to be part of the Lobbyst archetype. In retrospect, I wonder if the name is apt. The Busy might be more neutral.

Comment 2

Received: 2 March 2021
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Jaime Saldarriaga

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Comment: It is a positive Article. I like the Focus on Decision Making. Yet I miss the recognition of Uncertainty that involves the Whole Issue.

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Response 1 to Comment 2

Received: 13 August 2021
Commenter:

Claude Garcia

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Comment: Gracias Jaime.

There are different forms of uncertainty. One is the result of insufficient knowledge. One stems from the impossibility to know certain things. ( Du Sautoy, Marcus. What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge. 4th Estate, 2016). And there is at least one more, the famous unknown unknowns. All play a role in our decisions.
Our beliefs - those that make us a denier or not - are held with more or less strenght based on how confident we are on the belief or how much it matters to us. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627320303470)

So you are right, uncertainty deserves to be integrated - when the times come to better understand how we move between archetypes. It does not change the archetype structure.

Maybe you will find this useful:
https://i2insights.org/2020/07/28/uncertainty-awareness-ambiguity/

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