There are suggestions online for the most effective donations to fight climate change. You might start with theatlantic.com/newsletters/weekly-planet, then look for others.
. I think you and the people you quote are right—actions today are long past their sell-by date. And yet, one has to feel optimistic in many respects because now the whole world is talking about climate change. The COP26 conference got lots of play here in Australia complaining that Prime Minister Scott Morrison is not committing Australia hard enough to be on the international stage with respect to climate change. He still has too many friends in the coal and oil industries that he is pandering to, and the people are upset. But the conversation is good, it has not ever before been so intense over the whole world, There has to be good there somewhere. OK, there is bickering over achieving net zero emissions by 2030 or 2050, but at least there is a range of dates to work to. That has never happened before at least to the intensity that we saw this year. I think the naysayers are going to have to shut up and get on the band wagon to help turn our earth around.
In another respect, I think the governments that want to push through climate control initiatives should be speaking more loudly about how investments to combat climate change can create huge numbers of jobs, improve the overall economy, increase tax revenues so that the infrastructure and investments can pay for themselves. There is still too much arguing over “X is going to cost more than we can afford to pay”. They are looking only at the down side of costs and not looking at the whole picture of how such costs (investments!) can improve so many other things.
Right now we are in a carbon economy that is going to disappear someday. There has to be a paradigm shift to a new carbon-neutral economy that is rooted in renewable energy resources. I think the effort is there. On the internet every day you see all sorts of new products that are designed to combat climate change, or at least not add to the current carbon footprint. I think the country and the world will get there. The momentum to move in the right direction is increasing. We may have already reached the point of it being self-sustaining—people are going to continue to innovate our way out of the coming climate crisis.
Thanks for ClimateDog--Great Name! I look forward to more blog posts from you and Buddy.
There are suggestions online for the most effective donations to fight climate change. You might start with theatlantic.com/newsletters/weekly-planet, then look for others.
. I think you and the people you quote are right—actions today are long past their sell-by date. And yet, one has to feel optimistic in many respects because now the whole world is talking about climate change. The COP26 conference got lots of play here in Australia complaining that Prime Minister Scott Morrison is not committing Australia hard enough to be on the international stage with respect to climate change. He still has too many friends in the coal and oil industries that he is pandering to, and the people are upset. But the conversation is good, it has not ever before been so intense over the whole world, There has to be good there somewhere. OK, there is bickering over achieving net zero emissions by 2030 or 2050, but at least there is a range of dates to work to. That has never happened before at least to the intensity that we saw this year. I think the naysayers are going to have to shut up and get on the band wagon to help turn our earth around.
In another respect, I think the governments that want to push through climate control initiatives should be speaking more loudly about how investments to combat climate change can create huge numbers of jobs, improve the overall economy, increase tax revenues so that the infrastructure and investments can pay for themselves. There is still too much arguing over “X is going to cost more than we can afford to pay”. They are looking only at the down side of costs and not looking at the whole picture of how such costs (investments!) can improve so many other things.
Right now we are in a carbon economy that is going to disappear someday. There has to be a paradigm shift to a new carbon-neutral economy that is rooted in renewable energy resources. I think the effort is there. On the internet every day you see all sorts of new products that are designed to combat climate change, or at least not add to the current carbon footprint. I think the country and the world will get there. The momentum to move in the right direction is increasing. We may have already reached the point of it being self-sustaining—people are going to continue to innovate our way out of the coming climate crisis.
Thanks for ClimateDog--Great Name! I look forward to more blog posts from you and Buddy.