Climate change is a global crisis which demands cooperation at a scale never encountered before - cooperation on all levels of the global human society to reduce our carbon emissions:

1. Within families and at the workplace we need to help each other to find ways to minimize our energy consumption, considering each other’s needs and being willing to compromise.
2. Within larger units - such as universities, towns, and cities - different departments, businesses, industries and organizations need to cooperate and act for the greater good not for their own self-interest.
3. Nations will need to cooperate and transfer technologies so that all countries in the world can acquire the standards needed to deal with the tasks ahead.

If we cannot be successful on every single one of these levels, then fast and effective changes will be hard to reach. Why is such close cooperation so hard to achieve? (more…)