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Sunday, 28 December 2014

Climate change: perceptions and solutions: a summary

Below is a little list of pieces from this blog over the last eighteen months, looking at how we perceive climate change - and how we might deal with it.

THE PERCEPTIONS:

about the politics:

about the science:

about extracting:

about peak oil:

THE SOLUTIONS:

sacrifice our lifestyle:

leave the planet:

look to technology:

decouple economic growth from environmental consequences:

adapt:

enjoy the low fuel prices:

offset carbon:

realise how bad things really are:

reduce risk:

challenge the economic system:

challenge carbon producers:

reduce subsidies to fossil fuels:

raise taxes:

formulate energy bills differently:

demand justice:

get government to invest:

get governments to set targets:

enable communities to create action plans:

go for a stigmergic revolution: ie > local & spontaneous solutions:

encourage community energy production:

invest in renewables:

invest in nuclear:

create resilient local economies:


retrofit and refurbish:

build intelligently:

burn waste:

reduce the amount of energy we use:

build more intelligent infrastructure:

return to a pre-agricultural society:

eat local:

farm fossil-free:

prepare for extreme weather:
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