Climate Crisis -- The Problem pts. 1,2...; The Work pts. 1,2...; The Goal
I believe that DU is ahead of the nation’s curve on climate change knowledge, sharing, and activist engagement, for which, overall, there need be no “right” approach, but approaches that just work, and are widely shared.
The climate crisis has been on our minds, no matter how understandably unreal it might still feel. But from what I’ve seen, young people will not wait for elders to get it and get going.
If we feel we’ve lived through a tough 2020 — life & death hardships, grief, sorrow; public & leadership inertia, ignorance, cruelties — Joe knows that 2020 has just been the tip of the climate iceberg compared to what our grandchildren will live through if we don’t learn, imagine, take risks and do whatever is necessary right now.
This layperson’s aspiration:
That these climate discussions — The Problem, The Work, The Goal — encourage our startup sharing of
updated climate crisis information,
sources from the last 5 years,
discussion of world climate problems,
climate policies & decisionmakers,
climate global and national climate projects, operations, organizations & job opportunities,
climate sources limited to scientific, expert based planners, funders, orgs, ongoing projects, open source, non-paywall sites.
Shared sources (as up-to-date as possible), sourced ideas, any information are needed and welcome.
New and relevant thoughts and analyses of the above are needed and welcome.
Knowing climate language helps.…
Climate Glossary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_climate_change
Climate Change Definition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
A global map of the The Problem
CO2 EMISSIONS PER CAPITA PER COUNTRY FROM 2017 (more each year than previous years)
Another mapped perspective on emissions
NOW, ON TO PARTS OF THE PROBLEM
1. Our Politics.
Politics Can and Should Be in Keeping With Global Activity in Service of the Biosphere and the Future.
The problem is that for most nations, including America, politics suffer inertia, not paying enough attention to either.
Political inertia can be lessened when…
Our politics assumes that the evidence we’ve seen proves that climate change is not a hoax;
that global climate change is irrefutable
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-temperatures/evidence-for-man-made-global-warming-hits-gold-standard-scientists-idUSKCN1QE1ZU
Our politics is led by climate science, scientists, climate numbers only, mainstream expert sources only, and not by emotional media hype, not by he-said/she-said media distraction.
Our discourse assumes
— no more denial;
— no more conflicting polls of scientists,
— no more power games,
— no more vanity pretenses of concern,
— no more conflicting personal "what about my …” bases for argument;
— no more speculation;
— no more spectatorship;
— no more predictions without sourced data;
No more personal, organizational, national conflicts that slow momentum, add to inertia.
In sum, climate priority, positivity and imagination.
Yes, climate problems are vast, bottom to top.
All the more reason
— to stay informational and analytical;
— to talk more on-topic, be less emotional and personal experience (acceptable, but not derailing) when we consider possible topics (just examples) like…
— how humans, bottom to top, deal with change;
— how no functional human ever need be jobless again, or work again in the traditional sense;
— how climate change leadership commitment must be made a litmus test for elected office.
Continues Thursday…
