Topic: Solutions

How to pull Earth back from the brink. Johan Rockstrom, World Economic Forum via Business Insider.

A little hope and some VERY scary math about climate change. David Ropeik, Big Think.

Reducing carbon emissions won't halt economic growth. naked capitalism. Mar 19, 2016.

So what we did not succeed in doing in Paris, in my mind, is two fundamental things. Number 1, we still don’'t have a sense of the magnitude, the urgency if we believe climate science. China is talking about stabilizing emissions in 2030. They need to get emissions down by 20% by 2030. You know realistically, India needs to stabilize emissions where they are now or even get them down modestly; not let them grow 3 fold. Now, secondly, the United States needs to reduce emissions by 40-50%. That’s the magnitude of the challenge. 

Secondly, the point is all of this can be done in the context of economic growth by investing in energy efficiency and clean renewable energy. It'’s good for jobs, it'’s good for poverty reduction, it’'s good for community development, it’'s good for urban development. Those are the messages that need to get through and that’s the way through which, in my view, is the only way we’’re going to generate enough activity that is going to reach the stabilization goals.

Climate Change Solutions: What you thought you knew is obsolete. Dr. Joe Romm. Sep 2016. via youtube. video (52 min)




Sucking carbon out of the air won’t solve climate change. David Roberts, vox. Jun. 14, 2018.

This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising. David Roberts, vox. Apr. 22, 2019.

A chat with Paul Hawken about his ambitious effort to “map, measure, and model” global warming solutions.

An electrifying idea. George Monbiot. Nov. 6, 2018.

if this works, it could help, alongside political mobilisation, to change almost everything. Places which have become agricultural deserts, trashed by giant corporations, could be reforested, drawing carbon dioxide from the air on a vast scale. The ecosystems of land and sea could recover, not just in pockets but across great tracts of the planet. A new age of global hunger becomes less likely. 

Crude and destructive technologies got us into this mess. Refined technologies can help get us out of it. The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our lifetimes, they could repopulate a thriving world.