๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐น๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ.
Nonsense – surely individuals are powerless to counter the global drivers & momentum of climate cancer.
I beg to differ.
This heating planet is our commons. It holds us all. ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐โ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐. ๐๐โ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐.
I choose to believe that the future will be better than the past.
In a world where far more people wake up in the morning, trying to make the world a better place than wake up thinking weโre all doomed.
๐ ๐๐ข ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐๐ก ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐๐จ๐ฉ.
โThe climate crisis is not a science problem. It is a human problem. Nature never makes a mistake. We do. The ultimate power to change the world does not reside in technologies. It relies on reverence, respect, and compassionโfor ourselves, for all people, and for all life. Another way to look at this time in history is this: we are being homeschooled by the planet, our teacher. May our lives be our effort to reflect those teachings.โ โ Paul Hawken author โRegenerationโ
With human ingenuity, everything is โfigureoutableโ!
And we have already come a long way in terms of progress.
A few examples:
1๏ธโฃ We live on a planet of abundance: Our sun gives us about 1.74 x 1017ย watts of energy every single day (ie: 174,000,000,000,000,000, or 174 quadrillion watts). Thatโs 10,000 to 40,000 times more than we currently use.
2๏ธโฃ Harvesting the sunโs power: The more solar & windpower we build, the more the price falls – because the price is only the cost of setting up the equipment, which we get better at all the time. And both are already cheaper than traditional energy from fossil sources.
3๏ธโฃ Green Energy Storage: A molecule that can trap & store solar energy for up to decades. Itโs a molecule made of carbon, hydrogen & nitrogen that absorbs the Sunโs energy & holds it until a catalyst triggers its release.
4๏ธโฃ Getting CO2 out of the atmosphere: Dozens of Air Miners are working on that challenge.
5๏ธโฃ 100 more solutions to reverse global warming: Protecting Rainforests comes in at #5 and Rooftop Solar at #10. And #3 Reduced Food Waste certainly applies to every one of us.
Check it out & see where YOU could contribute to some of those ways & do your part too.
6๏ธโฃ All of this doesnโt even cost that much! In fact, a rapid green energy transition would likely generate considerable ECONOMIC SAVINGS (University of Oxford). โBy far the cheapest path for the future is a very fast transition to renewable energy: if you replace almost all fossil fuel use over the next twenty years, you save tens of trillions of dollars.โ
So many good reasons for staying rationally optimistic that we will be able to address climate & energy challenges.
We JUST need the involvement of every sector of society, top to bottom & everything between.
Every 1/8 billionth of us can make a difference. And we must.
By the way, choosing where to invest our money is certainly a significant lever too. ESG-investing anyone?
Who is with meโ
โWhether youโre an optimist or a pessimist may or may not affect the outcome. Itโs just that the optimist has a better time in life.โ โ James Borg, author