THINK
The Five Levers of Change
Cary's closing framework: corporations, investment, innovation, policy, and people. Split 100 points across them and defend your choice.
- Type
- Activity
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Length
- 10 min activity
Professor Krosinsky closes the conversation with five levers of change: corporations, investment, innovation, policy, and people. Each is a different way the world shifts towards a low-carbon economy, and none works alone.
This activity asks you to commit. If you had 100 points of effort to spread across the five levers, where would you put them? There is no correct split. The live total simply forces you to make trade-offs.
SPLIT 100 POINTS
How much does each lever matter for the next ten years?
Companies changing what they make and how they make it.
Where pension funds, banks, and investors put their money.
New technologies that make clean options cheaper and better.
Laws, taxes, subsidies, and rules set by governments.
Consumers, workers, voters, and students choosing differently.
100 points left to allocate.
Compare your split with a classmate's. The interesting part is not who is right, but why you weighted things differently.
REFLECT
- Which lever did you give the most points to, and why?
- Which lever do you personally have the most access to right now?
- Pick two levers and describe how they depend on each other.
- Would your split be different for India than for the United States or China? Why?