How a pop band changed the world: one example of a positive tipping point that brings hope to climate change

A-ha took the electric Fiat Panda home in 1989 and rebelled to change the laws. Today, almost all passenger cars sold in Norway are electric.

In addition to music, A-ha left its mark on the streets of Norwegian cities.

Røstvik had already been visiting Switzerland for the Tour de Sol electric car rally for five years.

– It was impossible to get the Norwegian media interested, so I contacted my friend Morten,” Røstvik says in an email.

Together, they bought Fiat, which was converted into electricity and took it to Norway.

The band became a rebel with their Fiat. They refused to pay car tax and tolling fees, driven on the bus lane, deliberately parked wrong. The media followed the events.

Police towed the car time and time again and fines were collected, but fans bought it back at the auction – 14 times.

Over the years, the rules and laws for electric cars changed. Their sales increased.

Before long, the popularity of electric cars exceeded * a positive gig * – growth could no longer be stopped. Nine out of ten cars sold in Norway were electronic last year.

Small change, big impact

Professor of climate change and country sciences Tim Lenton is an expert in giggle points.

Climate -related gig points are a horror picture of many. When the destruction of the Amazon rainforest exceeds a certain phase, its final disappearance can no longer be prevented. For example, the same applies to the melting of the Greenland glacier.

Positive gig points, in turn, give hope. The mechanics are the same: after the gig point, the change feeds itself and continues under its own weight.

– At a positive gig point, a small change will make a big impression as we try to slow down climate change, prevent nature from destroying, and improve social justice, Lenton says.

Norwegian wealth and hydropower -produced electricity undoubtedly accelerated the revolution of electric cars. But Lenton says that there are already signs elsewhere. In Finland last year, about three in ten of the first registered cars were full electric.

Lenton says that in the production of wind and solar energy, a positive gig point has also been exceeded by the world.

– Renewable energy is the cheapest option for power generation almost everywhere. It is now economically sensible to close power plants with fossil fuels and replace them with renewable.

Can green ammonia production go haywire?

There may also be a bubble in Finland.

There has been a lot of talk about green hydrogen, but Green North Energy is the first to prepare the production of ammonia in Naantali with renewable energy in Finland.

Ammonia will be used for the production of fertilizers and in the future as a fuel for ships. According to the arasto

In Finland, the production of green ammonia is defended by cheap electricity. In the current world situation, self -sufficiency in fertilizers and energy would not be a bad thing.

\”Absolutely Finland or other northern countries are a logical place to show that this can be done,\” says Lenton.

Even diet can make a difference

But is there a positive gig to save the world? Can they use a significant decline in greenhouse gas emissions?

Energy production causes three quarters of emissions. Its different sectors have good opportunities for gigs, Lenton estimates.

Cement production causes eight percent of emissions and is a difficult tick in climate work. There is enough company, for example in Finland.

The diet of the world’s inhabitants is changing and it may also have a seed of gig. Agriculture and livestock farming produce a lot of emissions.

– The more protein alternatives are made, the cheaper and better they will be, says Lenton.

A lot of things must happen, but the British professor is hopeful:

Great-great-aunt knocked down positions on women’s right to vote

Like the A-ha band, only a few people can sometimes be made.

In 1913, Lenton was accused of igniting a fire in a tea room in Kew Garden in London. He was arrested and taken to prison.

Like other suffrages, Lenton started a hunger strike and, according to the prison habits, he was forced to feed. However, the incorrectly pushed hose guided the lungs instead of liquid food.

Lento suffered from huge pains, but the doctors managed to save him. In all silence, the flight was allowed to recover from freedom.

However, the word spread. The British became nervous about the treatment of the activist.

Opinions giggled in the support of women’s right to vote. The law changed in two stages, and in 1928 all British women were entitled to drop their election ticket to the urn.