Professor Carl Folke's appearance on Sommar i P1 is critiqued for its lack of substance despite his promises of positive education on avoiding planetary destruction. His focus on 'resilience' attracts attention from royalty and global leaders, yet his approach is likened to a perpetual cocktail party filled with clichés.
Professor Sets Record with His Environmental Rhetoric
Professor Sets Record with His Environmental Rhetoric
Professor Carl Folke does a disservice to the overheated climate with his appearance on Sommar i P1. His rhetoric sets a record for melting away, writes Anna Gullberg.
To exist on the living planet is incredibly powerful, even improbable, says the professor in 'natural resource management' as if spellbound, inhaling the scent of lilacs.
Folke promises positive education on how to avoid the planet's demise, a brighter future.
'Resilience' is his buzzword, a gospel he manages to capture royalty and global business leaders with.
But most of all, he is at a perpetual cocktail party for the environment, spiced with platitudes.
Folke writes texts for photos in a lavish coffee table book, holds power meetings with the crown princess on a South Sea island, and inspires a newly written symphony that he enjoys at the Concert Hall. I congratulate the invention of an excellent synthesis, capitalism's morphing from plunderer to savior.
Folke belongs to one of the naturally occurring species in a small-scale ecosystem nesting in the area between the royal palace and Djurgården. Still, it's stingy not to share anything about the mission as a royal chamberlain and the professor's collaboration with Svenskt Tenn.