Climate 101 with Albert Wenger part 3
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Climate 101 with Albert Wenger part 3
Some suggest that the system needs to change, that individual actions like stopping flying are pointless, as one hundred corporates emit 70% of all emissions.32 Others demand ideological purity on climate consciousness, arguing that unless someone lives a carbon-neutral life, they can’t have a say about what needs to change in the system. This dich
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A non-exhaustive list includes: strict building standards to improve energy efficiency and renewable technologies; mandatory energy-efficiency building retrofits (with options for cheap loans to be paid back via the saved energy bills); a frequent flyer levy, penalizing each additional flight at an increasing rate; bans on road and airport expansio
... See morePaul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
Its relentless trajectory: To bring it on, all we have to do is, um, nothing. Its overwhelming complexity: To fix it, not only do we have to do something, but, as Naomi Klein has said, we pretty much have to “change everything” about how our economy and society operates. Its asymmetries of power: Those of us most historically responsible for causin
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Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
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