What Would Successful Climate Action Look Like?

I like to try to envision a world in which a serious ongoing climate program — with meaningful emergency measures suitable to the severity and scale of the crisis — actually happens. What would that look like? What would be happening that isn’t happening now? What’s happening now that would be stopped?

Before I begin, a disclaimer is necessary. First of all, I’m not a climate scientist and I believe we need to be enacting the recommendations of climate scientists, assisted by engineers and other true professionals in relevant fields. If and only if the climate science community endorsed my specific recommendations would I like them to be enacted. What I really want us to do is listen to the scientists.

However, in the absence of such a vision and set of plans by climate scientists, I offer my view as at least a theoretical starting point. In any case, I think we need to put forward a positive vision instead of merely reacting to proposals by those who are enthralled by the systems that are killing us. We can’t afford to be defensive. We need to set the stage and direct the conversation. We must be solutions-oriented, and break free of the timid unimaginative ideas that serve to merely excuse slow or ineffective ideas — which is what we have now.

I’m tired of the ideas of rich people, or ideologues or people with other self-serving and foolish agendas hogging the stage with nonsense. We don’t need to endlessly talk about nuclear — expensive, dangerous and mostly a money-making scheme. Or that every individual must reduce his/her/their carbon footprint while fossil fuel billionaires continue to offer only deadly oil, gas and coal, and stultify clean energy. Because we all know deep down that we use whatever energy is available to us, and the planet-killers are only offering oil, gas and coal.

I can’t believe that this isn’t blindingly obvious to all of us, but we shouldn’t allow any more fossil fuel plants to be built. Full stop. We didn’t let the Nazis — who were also killing people on a large scale using gas — to continue building concentration camps. Oil, gas and coal burning energy plants are no different.

In a sane world, deadly fossil fuel plants would be decommissioned and closed at a steady, and then…

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