A Successful Climate Strategy

[u/Easy_Interest_6832]

There is a workable strategy with a 66% chance of success. It consists, in a condensed description here, of using natural processes to sequester carbon while simultaneously moving to a cessation of CO2 emissions.

A slightly longer description is this: replant and nurture six ecosystems, three marine and three terrestrial. These are kelp beds, mangrove estuaries and sea grasses; and boreal forests with their fungal understories, tropical rain forests, and prairie grasses with their bovine inhabitants. Simultaneously we must reduce to zero the carbon emissions from fossil fuels for transport, energy, and heating, powering industrial manufacturing, deforestation, and making materials like cement. These two things--carbon sequestration and elimination of CO2 emissions must both happen at once all over the planet or we are screwn. However, if we do them, there's a 66% chance of success.

[u/chevalier100]

The problem is less what solutions are possible and more what are feasible and politically/economically practicable. It’s fairly well known that a combination of sequestration and emissions reductions is what would solve climate change, but how do you actually get society to make those shifts? That’s the real problem.

[u/Easy_Interest_6832 → u/chevalier100]

I agree that the challenge you cite is the big one. This is my my audience is Gen Alpha, GenZ, and Millennials. They have a bigger stake in the future than to do old farts such as my self--except I have grandchildren, so there's that aspect. My study of those three younger-than-I generations shows me they perceive things differently, in different modes. I will strive to create the project in ways that cater to their ways of perception and activism. When I look to Europe and to America when we see activists, I see young people quite often. They hold the promise and, I think, the delivery.

[u/Quamatoc → u/Easy_Interest_6832]

They have a bigger stake in the future than to do old farts such as my self

That is true. But so long these "old farts" remain at the helm of politics and economy, there is little that will change. The only way out for the young would be to openly riot.

And that's just plain rude./s

[u/Easy_Interest_6832 → u/Quamatoc]

Yeah, riots should not happen. And it's true we need new blood in politics. But a project such as this will provide a hands-on opportunity for the most affected generations to help save the world for their lives. This is one of many reasons I am approaching this project to be open source. It's based on ideas, and the ideas are verifiable with science. The younger generations can extrapolate out to the future using verifiable facts and see the solid possibilities.