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There are plenty of actions that can be taken to shape our climate and the politics around it. The need is for people to take action that multiplies each actio

by blemp 7y ago

There are plenty of actions that can be taken to shape our climate and the politics around it. The need is for people to take action that multiplies each action taken. Enable others to drive economic incentives. 1) Build, identify and share websites and apps that identify companies and products to use / avoid based on the climate change background of the company. These apps / sites need to be data driven and transparent with the data sources linked and accessible. Make these as easy as possible to use (ie. an AR app for phones to use in physical stores, browser plugins to use with online shopping, etc). Someone here on HN can probably crank these out in a few days to weeks (Make sure there are api's so different apps and sites can work together). 2) Using the above, focus on buying products from companies that work to improve the environment and encourage your family and friends to do the same. Everything from food to cloths to transportation, etc. Make it undesirable to BE a company that is not working to help the planet. Make it undesirable to WORK for a company that is not working to help the planet. - ex. Brazil is letting the rainforest get cut down / burn down for corporate greed? Tag products and companies from Brazil that are part of the problem, and that are not fighting the problem. - ex. Ethiopia plants 350 million trees in a day, invest in the companies and charities that are supporting that effort. 3) Centralize information about environmental efforts into a visually easy to navigate thing (again, app or site) so that people around the world can figure out how to invest and help. Leverage data analytics against corporate ownership and activities to score companies, countries, counties, charities and politicians on how they are helping to save the planet. 4) Call out the biggest things that drive climate change and help find solutions to change and replace them (XPRIZE anyone?). Everyone loves to talk about car pollution, no one talks about container ship and cruise ship pollution. (https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-15-biggest-ships-in-the-world-produce-more-pollution-than-all-the-cars https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-the-15-biggest-ships-i...). If containerships really are the worst polluters, perhaps there can be an XPrize to figure out how to replace them with something less polluting (clearly asking shoppers to stop buying and shipping things isn't working). Electric/Solar/Wind/Nuclear/Hydrogen powered boats? Electric or clean hybrid trains? It's the R&D cost to make these competitive options that prevent or reduce these from happening. 5) Are there other industrial solutions? Carbon capture and conversion to fuel? Atmospheric reflection? Maybe these are crazy science fiction, maybe not. The iPad was a prop on StarTrek The Next Generation in the 90s, now it's real and relatively cheap. Not everything will work, if we look for solutions, something will work, we can refine it and make it better. - https://www.google.com/search?q=reflect+atmostpheric+heat+into+space https://www.google.com/search?q=reflect+atmostpheric+heat+in... - https://www.google.com/search?q=co2+to+fuel https://www.google.com/search?q=co2+to+fuel Ultimately many people want to help, but don't know where to start or how they can help. The big place is not individual change... its corporate change. Saving the earth must be the economically best choice for companies and others.

CameronNemo 7y ago
Regulators actively resist efforts to improve transparency and labelling when it comes to consumer goods, particularly food. How can we overcome obstacles such as barcodes not encoding critical information.
- blemp 7y ago
  Working from your statement as completely valid, Augmented Reality has the potential to really change this. Food Barcodes and the simple visual recognition of products have the ability to link information that previously was hard to research and make available. For me, I don't know where to find the background information on the relative "goodness" or "badness" of companies or products. I expect it is out there, I just don't personally know where. (anyone want to throw it in the comments?)
  - CameronNemo 7y ago
    https://www.seafoodwatch.org/ https://www.seafoodwatch.org/
AstralStorm 7y ago
It's way too little. Even if you removed consumption and personal transport completely were looking at maximum of 30% reduction. We'd have to reengineer manufacturing goods and food distribution massively to cut it deeper, replace more transport with renewable or nuclear fueled electric. Local is best most of the time, so buy local food and locally made things. Skip unnecessary gadgets. And the most problematic part is reducing airplane miles and agricultural emissions. Nuclear tankers have already been shown, but I don't remember a link.
- blemp 7y ago
  Let us take your opening statement as valid. The complexity of the problem requires solutions that allow non experts to make an impact. If manufactured goods need to be engineered, the needed investment requires group interest, a market and research and development. Reducing investment costs could accelerate this through an avenue similar to open source software. There are probably other avenues. Re-engineer manufactured goods, make transport more renewable, reduce food miles and agriculture emissions, most consumers are supportive and simply need a simple way that they can help drive and make the change.

by blemp 7y ago

CameronNemo 7y ago

Regulators actively resist efforts to improve transparency and labelling when it comes to consumer goods, particularly food. How can we overcome obstacles such as barcodes not encoding critical information.

blemp 7y ago
Working from your statement as completely valid, Augmented Reality has the potential to really change this. Food Barcodes and the simple visual recognition of products have the ability to link information that previously was hard to research and make available. For me, I don't know where to find the background information on the relative "goodness" or "badness" of companies or products. I expect it is out there, I just don't personally know where. (anyone want to throw it in the comments?)
- CameronNemo 7y ago
  https://www.seafoodwatch.org/ https://www.seafoodwatch.org/

AstralStorm 7y ago

It's way too little. Even if you removed consumption and personal transport completely were looking at maximum of 30% reduction. We'd have to reengineer manufacturing goods and food distribution massively to cut it deeper, replace more transport with renewable or nuclear fueled electric. Local is best most of the time, so buy local food and locally made things. Skip unnecessary gadgets. And the most problematic part is reducing airplane miles and agricultural emissions. Nuclear tankers have already been shown, but I don't remember a link.

blemp 7y ago
Let us take your opening statement as valid. The complexity of the problem requires solutions that allow non experts to make an impact. If manufactured goods need to be engineered, the needed investment requires group interest, a market and research and development. Reducing investment costs could accelerate this through an avenue similar to open source software. There are probably other avenues. Re-engineer manufactured goods, make transport more renewable, reduce food miles and agriculture emissions, most consumers are supportive and simply need a simple way that they can help drive and make the change.