Everything is ‘figureoutable’

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ. 
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. ๐—•๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜. ๐—œ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜‚๐˜€.

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 weโ€™re all doomed.
๐™„ ๐™–๐™ข ๐™– ๐™ง๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ก ๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ.

โ€œThe 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 compassionโ€”for 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 โ€œRegenerationโ€

With human ingenuity, everything is โ€˜figureoutableโ€™!

And we have already come a long way in terms of progress.

A few examples:

1๏ธโƒฃ 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). Thatโ€™s 10,000 to 40,000 times more than we currently use.

2๏ธโƒฃ Harvesting the sunโ€™s 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๏ธโƒฃ Green Energy Storage: A molecule that can trap & store solar energy for up to decades. Itโ€™s a molecule made of carbon, hydrogen & nitrogen that absorbs the Sunโ€™s energy & holds it until a catalyst triggers its release.

4๏ธโƒฃ Getting CO2 out of the atmosphere: Dozens of Air Miners are working on that challenge.

5๏ธโƒฃ 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๏ธโƒฃ All of this doesnโ€™t even cost that much! In fact, a rapid green energy transition would likely generate considerable ECONOMIC SAVINGS (University of Oxford). โ€œBy 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“

โ€œWhether youโ€™re an optimist or a pessimist may or may not affect the outcome. Itโ€™s just that the optimist has a better time in life.โ€ โ€” James Borg, author

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