Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the most sound #global#philosophy and #strategy to potentially mitigate, and possibly reverse, the extreme damage we've done to our #climate and #environment.
"That's #nature, it's a beautiful and smart #system, but it's a system of give and take. We've just been taking and taking for so long, using the #Earth as our playground, that I think we've completely forgotten that we're a part of this system and, one day, in a not so distant #future, we're also gonna have to give back." – #DamiLee
We aren't separate from the #planet and its systems, we're just a small part.
Doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is our only hope at mitigating, maybe one day reversing, the ongoing and worsening devastation of the #ClimateChange we have caused and continue to exacerbate.
"We are entirely connected with #nature and, in turn, the #reef...Every action, every decision we make has an impact on the #environment around us...if you take positive [actions] to reduce your #carbon#emission, this in turn will have a really positive effect on #reefs around the #world...each of us individually are connected and...if we work together, we can have really large and positive impacts."
Yes, the #planet's rate of spin may be affected by #climate change. Potentially catastrophic, but may be mitigated (as well as exacerbated or caused by) variations in the #Moon's #orbit.
The segment starts at around 29:34 into the #video
Segments of this may have been #broadcast during normal #newscasts but, unfortunately, this full summary is provided via a secondary or tertiary outlet.
At least they're covering this news and sharing it in an understandable format.
"My personal view is that the change is worth pursuing in the interest of slowing the negative effects on our #ocean#ecosystem that #GlobalWarming and #ClimateChange is having right now. It's not free. It comes at a cost, and that's a trade-off that we have to consider when we decide to put #WindFarms into the #ocean."
Nothing is free, everything has a cost. The perfect is too often the enemy of the good.
Doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is what we need, now.
#DistrictCooling and other #infrastructure and #archtectural changes can help increase the efficiency of #cooling#systems and radically reduce the #energy such systems use even as exponentially more people in more places are finally able to access the lifesaving benefits of artificially and more naturally cooled air.
"...what we see is that #ClimateChange is by far the worst enemy. So yes, these things will have #environtmental effects, but we should put them in that context of #climate change."
It's critical that we implement now as many good options as we have, as widely as we can, as work on ever better #ClimateSolutions continues.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #solutions to #ClimateChange include producing and consuming less.
#Corporations are the worst #polluters because they #manufacture demand and need (e.g. planned obsolescence), then recklessly #pollute to meet that artificially inflated "need" for goods.
We must decrease our individual #consumerism while also forcing #businesses to stop polluting.
Ending #corporate#pollution and our rampant consumption are both required, and more.
Literally doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is our only, our final, chance to mitigate #ClimateChange.
A #philosophy and #strategy that employs the full range of #solutions we have (and creates new ones) is what we must follow if we hope to survive, and hopefully thrive.
"I refuse to think that it's too late...I'm working my ass off to work on ways to fix this."
#ClimateChange is already changing where #insects and wild #animals live, spreading the range—and sometimes increasing the lethality—of "modern" #pathogens while also releasing human-infectious, long frozen (up to a million years, so far) pathogens we're unfamiliar with, and against which we may have no #ImmuneDefenses.
Everything, Everywhere All at Once solutions, now.
A text version of a #DW#video I posted earlier in this thread covering alternatives to #AirConditioning for places where #AC—and the need for such #CoolingSystems—is ubiquitous, and for places where it hasn't been needed until our ongoing #ClimateChange catastrophe.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once solutions are our best hope for survival, and possible thriving after.
"It’s an ancient technique once practiced by the Incas, as well as in Mexico, Peru, Japan and Egypt...doesn’t require soil and can increase crop production thanks to faster plant growth and year-round production...Aquaponics is also thought to be more climate-friendly since it uses less energy and is more weather-resilient than traditional types of farming."
Another Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solution.
It's heartening that #African nations are directly confronting #Europe, the #US, and the rest of the "developed" "#GlobalNorth regarding our collective responsibility to address the #ClimateChange catastrophe we alone caused (now exacerbated by #China, #India, and others as they "develop").
Our wealth should pay for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #climate change mitigation solutions.
There are SO many Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation ideas and opportunities that take relatively little effort and can pay for themselves in very little time, almost immediately in cases and play like this.
We just need the collective will to make these happen now.
Yes, #UN, immediately implemented and ongoing #radical Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions are the only way for #humans and our #civilizations to survive, and hopefully thrive.
#ClimateChange is well underway and already causing serious harm to many people in many places in many ways.
All available mitigation solutions are required now if we are to have any hope of surviving, much less thrive in, the next years and decades.
People have died and will continue to die in ever increasing numbers if we fail to do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to halt further #climate change disasters.
"What if everybody lived with the understanding that [when] we harm #nature, we're harming ourselves?"
This undeniable, basic truth must be made universally known and understood.
That is one way to achieve #ClimateChange mitigation, and by understanding that codifying the right of #wild nature to exist, we directly help to ensure the continued survival of our #species, which is nearing the point of full collapse.
We must do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, or die.
By relying on the #knowledge that's long been known, rather than the "just because we can" arrogance of #capitalism, we can stop the long, slow, and now imminent #suicide of our #species.
#Libya is far from the only place where #dam collapse has directly caused large human death tolls.
Even with #war and it's real and lingering threat of violence and death, the people of #Gorongosa#mountain in #Mozambique, with direct training and engagement from and by the #government, have preservered and are succeeding in #reforesting the mountain while also benefiting from new #CashCrops—particularly #coffee.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, literally, is our best hope of #ClimateChange mitigation.
By doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, we can survive, and even thrive, the #ClimateChange we are all currently experiencing (not all are living through it).
It's sad that I have to explicitly state in this thread that, OF COURSE, my pushing for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions is for projects and #technologies that actually benefit the #environment, today, tomorrow, and, hopefully, long into the future.
I've never said that just doing anything is the answer, but that doing all that works, everywhere it can be done, starting now, is what we need.
The bad faith argument of a net-good #ClimateChange mitigation solution not meeting some arbitrary standard of "perfect", thus being less than useful or harmful, is a self-serving and intellectually limited viewpoint.
Implementing the best available solutions, imperfect as they may be, while also continuing to improve upon them and developing ever better options defines the Everything, Everywhere, All at Once strategy I believe we need.
"...while reducing our #CarbonFootprint is definitely the right idea, neglecting issues like #biodiversity in the pursuit of lessening #emissions will only worsen the problem in years to come."
The answer isn't a singular focus on one facet of the causes of our #ClimateChange catastrophe, but on doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and recognizing when plans go wrong and adjusting accordingly and continually.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation can take many forms, in many places.
Each bit of improvement matters, and the more successfully and broadly we can implement beneficial changes, perhaps the more beneficial changes can become the norm, rather than the exceptions they are now, possibly creating a new and positive feedback loop replacing our current one of disastrous #climate collapse.
Will #humans#evolve and adapt to use Everything , Everywhere, All at once solutions to help our survival?
"Life on #Earth will continue. Will #humans continue? Probably not...Preserving and restoring #ecosystems is what we found out is going to be a real foundation for combating #ClimateChange...we need...the go-ahead...#land...support of the public..."
Is the #US finally ready to start responding to #ClimateChange as a serious and immediate existential threat?
It's too early to know, but this seems it may be a good start.
A concerted effort that is tailored for the many different regions and #ecosystems of this vast and highly-polluting nation could really be a great Everything, Everywhere, All at Once response that benefits us all, #ecologically and #economically.
"I've long said, when I think #climate—not a joke—I think jobs." – President #JoeBiden
That lack of insight into and appreciation of the literal #existential threat to #humans of our ongoing and worsening #ClimateChange disaster is a clear indication that #Biden is too removed from reality.
"It's humanity, stupid."
The Everything, Everywhere, All at Once strategy can't work if key solutions are #monopolized.
"...that transition to a low #carbon future is not going to happen overnight. We need realistic options and #technologies that allow us to #decarbonize our existing #applications."
Too many insist that only "perfect" #ClimateChange mitigation solutions are worth pursuing.
I believe that doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the best, imperfect, strategy for saving us from our ongoing #climate disaster.
By ever-improving "good" options, we can save ourselves.
#TheCoolingWeb is an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solution that can be adopted and adapted to work everywhere #temperatures are high, or rising.
Yes, we can do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once through projects big and small to mitigate #ClimateChange.
There isn't just one answer, one solution, one goal, or one target that will save us, it's all of it that must be done because all of it is what we've broken or destroyed.
"...we are past the point where the actions of individual countries can move the needle on #ClimateChange."
Doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the only viable #climate change mitigation strategy that can possibly save #human#civilization and our #species.
On national and international scales, we must all work together on projects like building #HVDC#SuperGrid connectivity.
There isn't a single aspect of #modernity that we can afford to overlook when considering how we can reduce or eliminate our releasing of #GreenhouseGasses into the #atmosphere including, but not limited to, #carbon, the most abundant of such #gasses#human activity produces.
@ricardoharvin amd that means working to reduce emissions, make things last longer and be repairable.
Because you know what's better than a 100% renewable powered EV?
Having no need to buy one!
Even better allowing people to work remotely wherever technically possible, so less traffic = commutong is less stressful for those that still have to.
The linked article shows things that are working, things that aren't, and things that may make it all worse, and has comments and suggestions for each.
It includes a call for personal action as well because, though too many #climate#activists hate that, we need an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once strategy for climate solutions that literally leaves nothing that helps undone.
Just as we successfully acted to save the #Ozone layer, we can do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to preserve what remains of our total #environment.
It's terrifying and critical but it's not hopeless, it's possible.
Every little bit of progress matters in an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
Is this anywhere near enough? No.
Is this real and necessary progress towards reducing #climate damage? Yes, unequivocally.
#SolarPower is ramping up in the #US and now accounts for 7.1% of our energy, driven in part by a 26.6% increase in small-scale installations like rooftop #solar from July 2022 to July 2023.
#Rewilding and #ecosystem#restoration projects may not suit zealots who believe only directly removing #carbon from the #atmosphere is beneficial for #ClimateChange mitigation but such efforts fit perfectly in an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once strategy because #decarbonization is only one goal we need to achieve, not the only goal.
Every little bit of reduction to our contributions to #ClimateChange is good. The more we do, the better off we'll be.
Whatever helps is what we should be doing.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is the necessary, messy, #climate change mitigation strategy we need right now because we collectively chose to delay action until the crisis was well underway.
Yes, even working with less-than-ideal people, companies, organizations, nations, and other entities, if the results are reductions of our harmful emissions and increases to a healthy #environment, are absolutely part of a solid Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
It's the results that matter at this crucial stage, not some misguided and self-defeating "purity".
"...you can't just plant #trees...addressing this issue requires a multi-pronged approach...encouraging green spaces, but also enforcing industry standards, and also coming up with novel solutions that most people wouldn't immediately think of."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions abound and are stimulating long-overdue discussions and useful #innovations
Damaging or destroying #ecosystems and natural #environments is NOT part of, and is directly antithetical to, a solid Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
We must make all things better, not sacrifice one part to benefit another as that merely keeps us treading water.
@ricardoharvin obviously if a building (thinking shopping centres, factories and warehouses) has a large suitable roof then there should be incentives to install a solar farm on it or to rent the space to someone who wants to install a such a farm. Lots of vacant city roofs.
@Lats That's in the video, including an example of how a combo of #ParkingLotSolar and #RooftopSolar could possibly justify the higher installation costs for a #Walmart-type retailer by covering all #energy costs and providing excess that can be sold to the #grid.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is my literal expression of what we all should be doing.
Nothing that mitigates #ClimateChange should be overlooked or left undone.
The situation is dire, the state of our #environment is critical, but the future is not hopeless thanks to people doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to help mitigate the effects of #ClimateChange
"When #nature is allowed off the leash to be fully functioning, it can have an awe-inspiring resilience. These powers of nature shouldn't be underestimated."
"The bulk of the problem is still long-haul #flights, but until we can #fly on cleaner #fuels, we can start cutting #emissions where we can."
#Goverment policies and inter-cooperation are key to enabling Everything, Everywhere, All at Once solutions to mitigate #ClimateChange at every level, from hyper-local, to #national, to #international and, ultimately, #global.
Yet again today, I muted and blocked another person who posted that no one is doing anything about #ClimateChange.
That's an absolute lie and seems to me to be part of a deliberate #misinformation campaign designed to stop people from doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to mitigate #climate change.
It's fair to argue that not enough is being done, and that we're moving too slowly, but good work abounds, and every little bit helps.
Let's never forget or diminish the truth that so much of our #climate disaster is a result of #racism and #classism, everywhere on #Earth.
The most directly impacted people everywhere are non-white, and poor.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategies that focus on the most damaged and vulnerable #communities can have the most direct and immediate positive impact for us all.
Without maintaining and restoring #ecosystems and #biodiversity, seemingly good projects like planting large numbers of #trees can be worse for the #environment than those trees not being planted at all.
#Greenwashing and #commercial interests often harm the planet by focusing on one thing, rather than on Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
As noted a bit earlier in this thread, repurposing #ParkingLots (adding #solar) can be a highly effective and ultimately cost-efficient way to reduce overall #emissions and mitigate #ClimateChange.
Another, maybe more mid-term option could be to enhance the amount of #greenery in such lots, or to use greenery instead of or along with solar.
All combined with improved #transit, public and personal, for an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once approach.
This may not be a viable option, in terms of safety, in certain scenarios (e.g. #metropolitan#RushHour with aggressive #drivers), but in terms of cost and range, this seems like a solid and relatively "affordable" #car alternative and progress towards reducing overall #vehicle#carbon and space footprints.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation means making improvements any way we can, not waiting on mythical "perfect" solutions.
"We know that #wilderness is an incredibly powerful #natural#climate solution and we need to be conserving more of it."
"...each...of us really needs to get on this and work with organizations like #NortheastWildernessTrust...put these #lands aside...large and small alike...20 acres or 200...or 2,000...it's all important."
It's about doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to mitigate #ClimateChange.
Restoring #ecosystems is an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy that works.
Removing #dams and allowing #waterways to resume their normal flows increases the numbers of native species and overall health of the #environment.
Replacing #hydroelectric power with far less intrusive and destructive sources, like smartly deployed #solar, can result in a net gain of environmental health and #climate change reduction.
Rethinking Everything, Everywhere, All at Once can lead to amazing #ClimateChange mitigation solutions based on #ancient#technologies, we don't always have to create entirely new components.
Cost-effective, scalable, and #environmentally friendly storage of #energy generated by #rewnewables remains a problem with which current #batteries still struggle, and l this kinda low-tech alternative may be an answer.
As noted previously in this thread, #tree planting on its own is a strategy that will fail. There must be a #holistic approach that includes much more than just adding #trees, including incentives to reduce or eliminate continued human damage.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once does NOT mean anything, anywhere, thoughtlessly done.
It's not about any one thing, no matter how critical that any one thing may be—especially ending #carbon and other #GreenhouseGas#emissions—it's about Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
Even we got emissions down to zero literally today, and for all time, we've still already passed important temperature benchmarks that will continue to negatively affect our #climate for decades, if not centuries or permanently, if we don't do much more.
"#Agriculture has been the single biggest driver for #wilderness destruction." (As noted in a previous #video, in the #US home #lawns consume more acreage than agriculture, thus are more #ecologically damaging.)
As also previously noted, #ancient#technologies, like #aquaponics, updated and adapted for our times (e.g. including #solar, for power), can be part of a successful Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
The goal of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions is "progress, not perfection", with radical and continual improvements.
These blooms are likely caused by #ClimateChange, and this business may soon be another Everything, Everywhere, All at Once option for #sustainable#HomeBuilding.
Without fundamentally changing how our society functions, even the best Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategies will only slow the rate of our impending demise, when the goal must be to not just to avert that demise, but to reverse as much damage as we can so we can thrive in harmony with our #environment.
It's clear our collective priorities have failed, and we need a new way forward.
"As #human#civilization continues to grow, our need for #sand will grow too. But that doesn't...mean that the way we exploit our #environment needs to grow..."
"We have to figure out ways to live our lives, and to build our #cities...where most people live, in ways that just consume less across the board...less of everything, and that is very much doable."
Not using Everything, Everywhere, All at Once may be the best #ClimateChange mitigation solution of all.
More information, constantly and openly shared, needs to be a part of an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
"We're not #physiologically oriented for slow #violence and incremental notions of #risk...we're...impaired in our ability to understand the accumulation of risk. The more information #consumers have...the greater likelihood [there] is...that they will shift their behavior accordingly."
"Start from the rising #sun and work towards the setting Sun. Take only the sick, the mature, and the downed #trees, the trees that are dead, the trees that are dying. When you reach the end of the #reservation turn, start over, and cut from the setting Sun to the rising Sun and the trees will last forever." – #Menominee#tribal teaching.
The wisdom of the past is vital to successful Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation.
In our pursuit of anything, and in all things, we must be mindful and respectful of the peoples who first populated our lands, whoever they are and wherever we are.
Trampling, often literally, the people, and their rights, to whom the land most rightfully belongs is not part of the Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy because that mode of operation is exactly what's caused our #climate destruction.
Some Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions may only realize their full potential decades from now, but while we work on immediate fixes we must also remain aware of and prepare for the future regardless of how successful our efforts are in the relative short-term.
This will never be an issue that ends, we will continually need to work tirelessly to reduce our #GreenhouseGas#emissions and #environmental damage, forever.
"...it should give everyone hope. Any...project or...idea...someone has that's gonna help restore balance and help fix an #ecosystem, all they have to do is look at the #Klamath and say, 'Those guys did it, we should be able to do it, too.' It's not just about restoring the #KlamathRiver. This whole idea is much bigger than that. It's about fixing the #earth."
"We (the #Yurok, specifically, and other #triibes of the #KlamathRiver, inclusively) have that great privilege of being able to fish this river, but along with that great privilege comes an obligation to preserve and protect it..."
We all, collectively and individually, have an obligation to do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, as best we can and on a rapidly ever-improving basis, to preserve and protect the #enironment, our #ecosystems, our #Earth.
"...80% of all #wildlife species in the [#US] depend on the...habitat beaver create."
"#Beaver should be our national #climate action plan because connected #floodplains store water, store #carbon, improve water quality, improve the resilience to #wildfire...what beaver do play an enormous role in controlling the dynamics of those systems...we should...be trying to mimic what they do."
"It just goes to show the power that preserving and protecting something has, even if it is by chance."
In 1996 a #volcanic eruption in #Iceland combined with the largest #glacier in #Europe to create the conditions that allowed the native #birchwood#mast (mass #seed release) in 1997 to reforest 35 square kilometers.
When protected from #humans, #nature does Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, on its timescale, to mitigate #ClimateChange
The people who live in a place where such work is to be done must always be directly involved in and benefit from any solutions, and may already have successful methods that just need more resources.
"When you go into any small village in #Africa, you will find that people #conserve as a way of living, not because they were called to '#conservation.'"
"The problem is...people live and work on these lands. #Communities have to see a benefit in regrowing and maintaining lost #forests...this is, again, developed #Western#nations asking the least developed communities to shoulder the weight of their past [and barely abated] #ecological damage...every #community [has] different needs and...challenges."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once must include Everyone, Everywhere, All the Time.
It's better to expect the worse and be wrong, than to be optimistic and be wrong, is our default.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation requires hope, and a belief that we can achieve a much better outcome than what we have now, and where we're headed.
#LandBack and #rematriation are proving to be highly effective ways to effect long-term Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClinateChange mitigation, in addition to being morally righteous and long overdue.
#Lithium is definitely not the answer, but only an interim option until we can find a better solution that doesn't cause the level of #environmental and #human damage of this rare material.
Could #zinc be a much better, and cheaper, way to achieve Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation?
Extractive, non-#regenerative#technologies can only be short-term options for #ClimateChange mitigation because the irreparable damage they cause will eventually negate all or most of the immediate benefits they provide.
#Lithium is definitely not the answer. It only provides a temporary break and we must move away from it immediately.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once solutions and strategies must always be improving, and doing less #environmental damage.
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