"Follow me if you want to live" A simple guide to saving the planet.

[Boxerfan]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=YbtS_APwnJQ


The Talking heads had it right so long ago.
This is gospel-not open to discussion. Just a simple guide on what we need to do to alleviate-not solve-Global warming trends. And of course all pie in the sky till we elect people who give a damn.

1st a large scale push for de-salinization plants. With an abundance of salt / brackish water we will need sources of water-vast quantities is the plan.

There must be a global determination to cover any open land arid & otherwise with vegetation. Figure 20% dedicated to agriculture. The rest the least damaging fastest growing plant or shrub we can find suitable for the climate. Trees shrubs grassland all a giant carbon / heat soak.

We can all participate by greening our own areas as much as permitted. But of course this needs to be global and a concerted effort.

And we also need to prepare for the increasing storms with community shelters built to withstand class 5 hurricanes & large Tornadoes. And better early warning so they can be utilized.

When it gets bad enough maybe we can start-but I'd wager we argue till we die.


But if we want to live-and lessen the suffering of our nature-this is what needs to be done.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. That is an excellent start.

It would help make the planet habitable long term, too.

[Everyman Jackal]

2. As far as the world population goes

we are going to do very little. We will start dying off and when we get down to maybe a few million people we will stop having a negative effect on the planet. Of course, we will have caused the extinction of many species but new ones will come long. Even the area around Chernobyl has seen an abundance of animals and plants in only 33 years. Even a thermonuclear war will not kill the planet.

[DemocracyMouse]

3. Thank you Boxerfan! Keep people AWARE

And throw in a Green New Deal to redistribute wealth via green industries, projects and infrastructure. Get her done ✅

[DarthDem]

4. Thank You!

Everything you wrote seems very sensible. And achievable.

I really like it when solutions to climate change are presented in terms of realism and optimism instead of doomsaying.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Stopping the use of fossil fuels is more urgent. And then cutting down methane emissions.

The amount of land that lacks large-scale vegetation because of lack of water is relatively small; it's more been the uses we've put it to. And desalination plants require electricity, which we first need to use for replacing oil in transport, and gas in heating (and, of course, stop using fossil fuels to generate electricity). Solar panels and wind turbines also need electricity for their manufacture; since we need so many of them, that's another use of clean electricity to prioritise.

Cutting down methane emissions, from gas production and from cattle herds, is also a priority. Less cattle could mean more forests in some places. If any irrigation is done, it needs to be done in a global-warming-friendly way (you don't want swamps that produce methane; vegetation that locks carbon up in new soil or peat is good, however).

[Chuuku Davis]

6. Birth control

Is high on my list

[Joe941]

7. Stop eating meat too...

But people wont give it up... sigh.