Roland Kupers is a consultant on complexity, resilience, and energy transition and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A theoretical physicist by training, he spent a decade each at AT&T and Shell in various senior executive functions, including as Vice President for Sustainable Development.
Whether dissecting China’s Ecological Civilization or the United
States’ Green New Deal, Kupers describes what’s folly, what’s
possible, and which solutions just might work.
*E: The Environmental Magazine*
Rather than focusing on introducing more green technologies, which
essentially just amounts to tweaking the status quo, Kupers argues
that the transformative solutions needed are only discoverable at
the interconnection of systems (societal, technical, and economic)
and found through concerted experimentation and innovation…Gives
academics, policymakers, economists, and climate governance
specialists alike an additional tool with which to spark the
climate revolution we desperately need.
*Environmental Politics*
Convincingly contends that our climate crisis demands revolutionary
policy changes. Incremental shifts such as turning off lights and
flying less are helpful but insufficient… Kupers’ crisply written
text—which brims with fascinating examples—will engage readers from
entrepreneurs and policy makers to environmental activists.
*Choice*
A Climate Policy Revolution not only shows convincingly that we
cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
created them, but also discusses realistic ways forward. Kupers
successfully uses deep concepts of complexity science to point out
the weaknesses in our thinking and policy measures when getting a
grip on the causal networks that lead to our current environmental
and climate challenges. This is a timely and important book; read
it and act accordingly!
*Peter M. A. Sloot, Scientific Director of the Institute for
Advanced Study, Amsterdam, and Director of the Complexity
Institute, Singapore*
A Climate Policy Revolution delivers on the promise of its title:
it offers a framework for how to think about the kinds of changes
that we need to make to meet the climate crisis that is genuinely
different and disruptive. Kupers’s focus—on disequilibrium rather
than equilibrium, on closing off current paths as much as opening
new ones, and on letting go as much as steering—is refreshing and
compelling. It’s a book that should interest public problem-solvers
of every stripe.
*Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of The Chessboard and the Web:
Strategies of Connection in a Networked World*
With insight and clarity, A Climate Policy Revolution reveals the
shortcomings of our current reductionist attempts to addressing
climate change. Kupers instead offers an evolutionary approach that
identifies what will be required to stabilize the climate.
*Steven Hamburg, Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund*
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