Climate 101 with Albert Wenger part 3

What Should Governments Do?Ban certain activities outright:- No more new cars with internal combustion enginesCreate a carbon tax:- Ideally $100/ton- Pay if you emit, earn if you drawdownFund basic research:- Nuclear fusion- GeoengineeringFunde Prizes:- Best drawdown solution

‘Instead of all following the same exact checklist,’ she says ‘I encourage people to figure out the special things they can contribute…. One way to do that is to draw a climate action Venn diagram with three circles. One circle is “What are you good at?,” the next is “What part of the climate problem do you want to help solve?,” and the third is “W

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In the United Nations’ IPCC most recent climate change mitigation report, the word “lifestyle” appears 193 times. The authors write, “The acceptability of collective social change over a longer term towards less resource intensive lifestyles, however, depends on the social mandate for change. This mandate can be built through public participation,

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‘Instead of all following the same exact checklist,’ she says ‘I encourage people to figure out the special things they can contribute…. One way to do that is to draw a climate action Venn diagram with three circles. One circle is “What are you good at?,” the next is “What part of the climate problem do you want to help solve?,” and the third is “W

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ddressing cl

imate change ultimately requires a

change

in

(westernised)

lifestyles

,

based

upon

a

reduction

in

consumption

(WorldWatch Institute 2010)