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We can not rapidly push much of the population into extreme poverty and still solve this with Carbon Extraction: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/673742751/how-1-

We can not rapidly push much of the population into extreme poverty and still solve this with Carbon Extraction: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/673742751/how-1-company-pulls-carbon-from-the-air-aiming-to-avert-a-climate-catastrophe https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/673742751/how-1-company-pulls... Bill Gates is investing in it about the same way he called a pandemic. He’s doing something but not making enough noise about it. Vote for a carbon tax to pay for these plants, put them in areas that used to mine coal or drill for gas.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
Here are some solutions for you: Affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods. We know how to build this. We used to do it all the time. We just zoned it out of existence. Mixed use areas with residential above commercial. Good public transit. Passive solar design. Vernacular architecture. Support remote work and small time operators instead of actively crapping all over them and trying to drive them out of existence. Institute universal health care in the US, like most developed countries have. That would go a long way towards protecting people from poverty. So would making affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods. I've studied this stuff for a lot of years. I just don't get listened to because I was a homemaker and homeschooling mom and I spent years homeless. I've lived without a car for over a decade. I currently do remote work. I currently live in a small space in a walkable downtown area with good public transit. I would love to further enhance the downtown area I live in, but, hey, I don't have a driver's license and yadda, so no one is going to hire me to do that kind of work. But this can be done. And it doesn't have to involve pushing people into poverty, though we would all benefit if we would stop wallowing in North American Affluenza. Less is more and all that.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

Here are some solutions for you: Affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods. We know how to build this. We used to do it all the time. We just zoned it out of existence. Mixed use areas with residential above commercial. Good public transit. Passive solar design. Vernacular architecture. Support remote work and small time operators instead of actively crapping all over them and trying to drive them out of existence. Institute universal health care in the US, like most developed countries have. That would go a long way towards protecting people from poverty. So would making affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods. I've studied this stuff for a lot of years. I just don't get listened to because I was a homemaker and homeschooling mom and I spent years homeless. I've lived without a car for over a decade. I currently do remote work. I currently live in a small space in a walkable downtown area with good public transit. I would love to further enhance the downtown area I live in, but, hey, I don't have a driver's license and yadda, so no one is going to hire me to do that kind of work. But this can be done. And it doesn't have to involve pushing people into poverty, though we would all benefit if we would stop wallowing in North American Affluenza. Less is more and all that.