Decision Making: How do we come to decisions, how do we enact them in view of the urge for ecological implementation?

Climate change, the loss of so many species, polluted air and water and so on… We know, but we do not act. Why?

Basic Questions:

We do know that the ecological crisis may end up as a disaster for human life on earth. We do have strategies and technological developments which might solve some major problems or minimize some of the worst consequences at least. But we hardly do act. Why? And who is “we”? Can we blame the governments only? Is human inertia a major problem? Or fear to change?  What would be resources for decision making, individually and collectively? What does it mean for the institutional levels, and which kind of institutions are being challenged here? What is the difference between institutional and individual decision making? Action is urgent: How do we come to decision that will be made fast enough? What are appropriate and working motivations? What is the relationship between incentives and decision making? Which kind of incentives are useful to stimulate creativity and readiness for needed transformation? 

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