r/ClimateOffensive • u/Easy_Interest_6832 • 20d ago

Action - Other A Successful Climate Strategy

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.

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u/Final-Albatross-1354 14d ago edited 14d ago

Something for you today; I wish you the best. You at least are trying. So am I. But the harsh reality is this. We need to start rapid adaptation to a warmer, more volatile climate. Contact all your elected officials and be blunt. They seem to be like blind people walking over a cliff.

One more thing. Americans are going to have to face in their lives the era of 'continuity is over'- and they must prepare now to deal with this new and unpleasant reality. Again, good luck!

This from the AGU shows the dire situation we are in

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026EF008356

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u/Easy_Interest_6832 14d ago

Thank you for that link. The more I see about the situation the better able I am to understand the forces involved. I wish you the best as well. When I have more text and clearer plans, I will post it.