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1. One thing to do is to reframe from not just climate change to thinking in terms of planetary boundaries. The stockholm resilience center goes into this: http
by seltzered_ 5y ago
1. One thing to do is to reframe from not just climate change to thinking in terms of planetary boundaries. The stockholm resilience center goes into this: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound... . There's even a netflix documentary out now called 'Breaking Boundaries' hosted by David Attenborough and all. I stress this because too many people think just in terms of climate and not also recognize biodiversity collapse, biogeochemical flows, etc. There may be opportunities in thinking about regions more from this standpoint too, a la Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics.
2. Realize there are social practices to help deal with some of these problems, not necessarily just technological fixes. Things like possibly working at a neighborhood scale to have more local circular flows, cohousing, etc.
3. Have some concern that a route of having a 'climate' plan may accidentally end up with more ghg emissions or miss the mark on environmental/social issues. Some things I've been thinking about lately have been the results of south korea's climate plan ( https://youtu.be/x0ckvo2Z5BU?t=4 https://youtu.be/x0ckvo2Z5BU?t=4 ) and an argument that the green new deal is a moral hazard ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSae5F__yQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSae5F__yQc )
4. Think about niche construction, and what caused anthropogenic climate change - getting into the economic & social factors.
5. Consider that it's possible to do ecosystem restoration, as evangelized by groups like https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org https://ecosystemrestorationcamps.org , https://ecosystemguild.org https://ecosystemguild.org , etc. There's also things under the umbrella of 'assisted migration' as climactic shifts happen.
6. Some of the more basic things like water might be of more interest than energy depending on where you are. There's all sorts of things to be talked about in terms of 'decentralizing water'. Again, goes in hand with understanding ecosystems.
While super inspirational, I've actually found myself rethinking what worrydream wrote in this piece. It's too focused on just climate - feeling a bit too inspired by Saul Griffith (who with the otherlab team's creating amazing things like http://energyliteracy.com http://energyliteracy.com ). Some like Joe Brewer have already touched on all this with 'The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth' - https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-design-pathway-for-regenerating-earth/ https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-design-pathway-for-... (bias: I know the author, google the book), works from the Post-Carbon Institute, etc.