The Great Disruption

While the initial response will focus on climate change, particularly energy, transport, and agriculture, it is clear as argued in earlier chapters that climate change is a symptom, not the problem. This means that to succeed we will have to rapidly

Move away from climate-unfriendly protein

Cut deforestation and other logging by 50 percent

Ration use of dirty cars to cut transport emissions by 50 percent

When you include commercial and industrial electricity bills, total U.S. end user spending in 2008 amounted to a staggering $363.7 billion.6

Bind 1 gigaton of CO2 in the soil

The full plan, available from the Journal for Global Responsibility Web site,16

Close one thousand dirty coal power plants within five years

The human ones include linkages between the ecosystem and the economy, as in our earlier example of the food system, where higher oil prices and subsidies for corn-based ethanol in the United States led to deforestation in Brazil, which worsens climate impacts, which drives up food prices. The other key human uncertainty is technology. There is alw