Gunnar Rundgren

Adding up, when discussing decoupling, it is extremely important to look into the definitions, the boundaries and the evidence presented – regardless what message they have – in a very critical way.

The illusion that a transition to a service economy would lower our material footprint is caused by the inability to look at the system as a whole and the feedback loops that exist.

The ride will be easier if we halt the depletion of resources and the degradation of nature and build a regenerative food system now, before we are faced with the possibility of worrying whether we will get any food at all before going to bed.

Preferably, researchers should come down to earth and get their hands and feet dirty, instead of sitting in their skylabs. I have some spare shovels.

The main argument for pulses is not from the consumption perspective. Their main feat is that they and other leguminous plants have a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium bacteria.

I find it intriguing that there is so much discussion about emissions and climate justice from a consumption perspective and so little from a production perspective.