Radical Realism for Climate Justice: From Linear Economy to a Zero Waste Society
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Date: 26/11/2020

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible, and it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.

To do so will require a radical shift away from resource-intensive and wasteful production and consumption patterns and a deep transformation towards ecological sustainability and social justice. Demanding this transformation is not ‘naïve’ or ‘politically unfeasible’, it is radically realistic.

In this part of the Radical Realism video series, Zero Waste Europe and Heinrich Boell Foundation explore the need for our linear, throw-away economies to shift to zero-waste, circular economies. 

Based on the chapter „Zero Waste Circular Economy: A Systemic Game-Changer to Climate Change“ in the Radical Realism publication: https://www.boell.de/en/radicalrealism