In a detailed interview, Franz Josef Radermacher explains what the book is about:
“The key realisation is, on the one hand, that we have a dramatic problem on the globe with regard to the climate. And the second realisation is that there is a way, with good will and a lot of wisdom, to overcome the situation – in such a way that we can implement the 2030 Agenda to a very large extent and protect the climate. And that in a world with prosperity for ten billion people.”
ALL IN! describes a promising international climate policy. Against this backdrop, the prevailing climate policy is being called into question, which essentially relies on national, usually very expensive measures – but cannot solve the climate problem in this way. This can be observed in Germany in particular.
“Climate nationalism and the policies we are pursuing are not compatible with prosperity, but also carry with them a very high probability of war and civil war. This situation is not very attractive. There will be more conflicts. There are also more problems with the weather. There are problems with food. When we see that climate policy is obviously not able to prevent all of this, then the point will come where people will say: don’t we have another solution? And the interesting thing is that the reference solution, which opens up the chance of a global economic miracle, is ultimately relatively inexpensive. It’s not as if we now have to give up a third of our prosperity, but we are ultimately talking about manageable sums that have to be raised. We just have to get away from the idea that this is something like development aid. We have to get to the point where we say: we are spending our money to solve a substantial part of the climate problem in other parts of the world, including parts that we would otherwise have to spend a lot of money trying to implement here.”