Climate Change Solutions 3
Project Drawdown’s 100 solutions with quantifications is the #1 best climate change resource on the internet.
If you use the 7+7 small efforts and/or development %s for advocacy and understanding, you can rapidly make progress on understanding (e.g. can you add a paragraph about what some of these are, if you want to and you think it’s relevant- e.g. as part of your 7+7 small efforts), and most importantly, %s to advocate for these to the 8 billion via social media or any other methods.
Project Drawdown’s World Solutions, starting from the most obvious categories:
1 For Crop Farmers: Specific Type of Crop Techniques:
e.g. Are you a Farmer? Do you know any Farmers over social media?
System of Rice Intensification
1 For Crop Farmers: General Crop Techniques:
Sustainable Intensification for Smallholders
1 For Animal Farmers:
1 Farming- The Sea
Macroalgae Protection and Restoration
Notes: The above are like information sheets for different types of farmers. A lot of these are quite similar. But if each farmer could learn the relevant Project Drawdown, they can find a lot of win/wins for themselves, because a lot of these offer financial increases together with the 2025 and 2030 climate change goals.
2 For Environmental Protectors:
Indigenous Peoples’ Forest Tenure
2 For Environmental Restoration Work:
Peatland Protection and Rewetting
Tree Plantations (on Degraded Land)
Abandoned Farmland Restoration
Notes: Most people won’t be specialists in all of these, but by becoming specialists in a few areas and strongly encouraging the rest, hopefully most of these will be covered.
3 Large Scale Source Energy
Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaics
Notes: Governments would probably be the best placed to apply the above. However, households can and should research government and non-profit organization rebates, support and incentives, and to install these themselves (e.g. solar power). However, to be aware that wind power can be very noisy, which can disrupt local ecosystems.
4 For Building or Updating Houses and Other Buildings: Easier to Implement
Distributed Solar Photovoltaics
4 For Building or Updating Houses and Other Buildings: Harder to Implement
Notes: The first list shows ways to update (retrofit) current houses and buildings, and can offer a lot of rebates, monetary savings and even income for households and businesses. Solar power in particular often pays itself off through something called feed-in tariffs, which sells extra energy back to the main grid.
5 For Transport Technology:
Notes: Technology specialists can potentially add %s to make the above more efficient or renewable. The more people that buy the above options, the sooner the above can start mass producing at cheaper prices. However, this might take some time. But % by %, these can become more affordable sooner, preferably as soon as achievable.
6 City design and people’s habits
Notes: While a number of other categories have links to city design (e.g. buildings), the above are purely for the above category- people’s habits & city design. These would most likely require government incentives to be built though.
7 Improved technical solutions to public habits
Notes: The above areas could definitely use further technical %s to make them cheaper, safer and easier to apply. However, they can be applied as habits right now and doing this will help climate change a lot.
8 People’s habits
Notes: Despite their simplicity, these are some of the largest %s to help with climate change (if you can safely keep asking the world to apply them, via social media). For example, food uses a variety of processes along the entire food supply chain, and reducing food waste reduces climate change produced during all of these processes. As a habit, this means things like consuming food leftovers, planning your meals ahead of time so as to minimize food leftovers, and when ordering takeaway, asking the food supplier to exclude any ingredients you won’t eat (e.g. lettuce). Reducing plastics could mean making a habit of choosing recyclable materials wherever possible (e.g. wherever affordable), or reducing overall purchases of one-time use products.
9 Education that all people deserve to have- and to slow down earth’s population
Notes: The world needs to stay well below ten billion people by 2050 and up to 2100 and beyond, and populations are still growing faster than the replacement rate. Having children involves climate change emissions along their whole lifetime. Wherever achievable, please encourage the world to stick to 1-2 children only.
10 Reducing emissions
Notes: Technical specialists can find ways to manage climate change using the above methods. For example, methane is a much stronger global warmer than carbon, so reducing it will speed up the world reaching the 2025 goals.
What are ways to interact with the information to the left?
The 7+7 small efforts described in Climate Change Article 2 are an excellent way to approach information like this (and the connected actions) is a gentle yet highly motivating way to do this.
A good starting point for interacting with this Article is finding 10 high potential climate change areas per week (within your 7+7 small efforts on something hard, or within your development time), and helping to advocate for these regularly (and safely) via social media, to understand these better, and potentially to apply some of these yourself.
For example, you could go to Project Drawdown’s 100 solutions page: https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions, click on column 2 to sort the solutions from largest to smallest, and advocate for some of the 10 highest potential solutions worldwide/ for the 8 billion people.
You could also add 1-4 short paragraphs for areas you are considering, where your paragraphs start with the information available online and then summarize it into short overall paragraphs. If you scroll down to halfway down the page, you can find examples of this process: https://www.bettermindbodyhealthhappiness.com/detailed
Areas that also regularly need %s are
Persuading the 8 billion to do 7+7 small climate change efforts per week, plus any development %s if they choose to
Tipping points (which are prevented by specific knowledge of them and by applying the largest preventions as soon as achievable, % by % by %)
Persuading the world of tech people to regularly add %s to speed up climate change tech (to make up for the poorest 4 billion people increasing in wealth to 2050 and consuming a lot more- the main solution is rapidly increased climate change tech)
Regular social media ripples for any of the above to persuade the 8 billion, being mindful of safety and carefulness.
