"Follow me if you want to live" A simple guide to saving the planet.

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5. Stopping the use of fossil fuels is more urgent. And then cutting down methane emissions.

The amount of land that lacks large-scale vegetation because of lack of water is relatively small; it's more been the uses we've put it to. And desalination plants require electricity, which we first need to use for replacing oil in transport, and gas in heating (and, of course, stop using fossil fuels to generate electricity). Solar panels and wind turbines also need electricity for their manufacture; since we need so many of them, that's another use of clean electricity to prioritise.

Cutting down methane emissions, from gas production and from cattle herds, is also a priority. Less cattle could mean more forests in some places. If any irrigation is done, it needs to be done in a global-warming-friendly way (you don't want swamps that produce methane; vegetation that locks carbon up in new soil or peat is good, however).