In World War Two, scale was no object and unlimited funding was no deterrent to completing the mission. Urgency drove the agenda.

To reverse Climate Change, only global scale remedies will save us.

Governments need to turn off CO₂ pollution everywhere as fast as humanly possible.

They will also need to legislate remedies to remove skyborne CO₂ with the same intensity.

Unlike the rapid and dramatic events which precipitated World War II, Climate Change is a slow-moving disaster unfolding over decades. Many — if not most of us — feel we can ignore getting involved; we shrug our shoulders and feel we have no choice but to "put it off." It seems as if "no one is in charge," which brings a sense of helplessness and resignation.

There is a daunting litany of apparently insurmountable barriers to a global scale implementation of potent solutions. Some of these are a wariness regarding the cost, magical thinking that some other way — a less expensive way? — will come along to save us, or someone else is fixing the issue and "they" will handle it.

The Climate Emergency is the most important issue facing humanity.

Consider that if we do not make the Climate Emergency our top priority now, the amount of treasure we will be required to spend down the road will dwarf the cost of current proposals. The public deserves to be informed of just how serious the crisis is — and that their political participation is crucial in order to produce a positive outcome.

We might offer the employees who perform fracking and oil / gas extraction — as well as the local outfits and powerful multi-national companies which employ them — the opportunity to transition to much needed climate-related work at attractive pay scales. Those provisions might be both generous and compassionate. It is not helpful to demonize those industries and their employees. If we are serious about creating a paradigm shift, then we might consider that everyone is invited to come along for the new opportunities a climate sensitive model will create. Yes, if you can't get results with an open, sincere and generous hand, then invoke governmental power.

Even if private enterprise is willing, it is likely to be unable to address its corner of the Climate Emergency on its own. A partnership of industry and government — based on the World War II transformation and repurposing of industry model — may be required to set meaningful goals and timelines in order to give us a fighting chance.

Legislate CO₂ pollution 'Out of Business'

It may not be good enough to only offer green alternatives to vehicles, homes and buildings which currently utilize fossil fuels, to planting trees, and to drawing excess CO2 out of the sky.

It is time to legislate sunset dates for specific pollution classes, in the fastest timelines possible and with enough enforcement to see to it that the job gets done. We need to recognize that both tracks are required to get this ship off the shoal.

The lowest hanging fruit are the CO2 spewing cars and trucks — 1.5 billion or so which are releasing CO2 into the sky every day. The first level of legislation might set a date for discontinuing the manufacture and sale of new non-green vehicles — for example, a gradual 20% draw-down per year, and a complete halt to their production within five years.

The second level would be the scaling up of Carbon Negative Vehicles (CNV) — those that remove CO2 as they cruise the highway. With mandatory implementation, their cost might drop considerably, and governments could do all they can to make the transition economically feasible for trade-ins. The third level would be the retrofitting of all non CNV vehicles on the highways within rapid timelines. That activity would be a parallel endeavor of almost equal importance.

CNV cars, trucks, buses, and RV's — plus the participation of non-CNV ships and locomotives — might be the fastest game plan to both meaningfully slow CO₂ introduction into the sky, and to remove monumental amounts of CO₂ at the same time.

How so? As the outmoded Carbon Dioxide emitting vehicles are retrofitted, and gradually leave the road over a ten-year draw-down, the Carbon Dioxide gulping CNV's will gradually and resolutely take their place. And when implementation is finally complete, with all outmoded vehicles off the road, the CNV vehicles will continue to perform their constant and unstoppable removal of CO2 day and night — for decades — and do it anywhere in the world there is a road, driveway or highway.

Won't consumers object to an automobile which is tasked with CO2 removal and doesn't appear to have any great personal benefit to its owner? Maybe most won't, and it's likely many might. Yet, the history of the automobile is replete with mandated technological improvements — consider lead-free fuels, Dole lights, head rests (to prevent whiplash), safety belts and even turn signals.

Skyscrapers or homes utilizing fossil fuels can be included in this largest scale proposal to support green heating and cooling methods. This aspect of Climate Change is one that is rarely addressed, or even discussed — yet the sheer quantity of CO2 released from buildings in the US, for example, is just a little less than half that of autos and trucks. EPA  Governments can legislate, provide financial support, and greatly scale up 100% green methods of heating, while at the same time adding sufficient CO2 Scrubbers such that entire buildings particpate in CO2 extraction.

New York City — "Nearly 70 percent of the city’s total Carbon emissions come from buildings.
A project to retrofit nine buildings with green technology is pioneering a new solution." NY TIMES

Why should we consider more than one Climate Emergency solution?

If FireDrone technology and planting a trillion trees could solve the CO2 issue, what then is the purpose of CNV vehicles, CO2 storage silos, splitting CO2, or other similar solutions? Consider the possibility that one plan or another might be blocked by local or national intransigence or red-tape.

Given the existential nature of the threat, positing and implementing many solutions gives us the edge we will need to survive.

Include the citizenry in the conversation. Even if you are not a scientist or engineer, everyone's voice is still needed to hold politicians, corporations and governments feet to the fire.

Apart from horrifying news regarding the endless climate disasters, distributing information about real-world solutions being planned or already implemented might engender stronger commitment, and more robust political support.

We don't have to settle for the "fog of war" mentality that the issue is too big, too costly or beyond our control. Propaganda stark and subtle churns out daily by those who benefit from the status quo; we can learn to publicly call it out.


Lets do the right thing.

You've heard this, and might've even thought it yourself: "It's a little hotter, and there's not much I can do about the animals, birds, insects, plants, corals and rain forests that are perishing daily. It's all so big, and there are no remedies big enough to handle it all, and to come to our rescue."
Read about ongoing and future mass extinctions here - DISCOVER

Fixing the problem is not easy, but it is doable:

Prepare for the upcoming years and plan out how we will adapt to a hotter world. Implement a 95% halt to anthropogenic CO2 emissions; remove and decommission the excess already in the atmosphere — and possibly the excess heat in the oceans too — as fast as possible. If these were our #1 commitments, then implementing these strategies will go a long way to reversing course.

The state of science, technology, and our societal capacity for innovation can solve the Climate Emergency now in progress. We can rise to the occasion, and fight the good fight once more.

Skin as thick as the bark of a pine.

"Seven generation stewardship is a concept that urges the current generation of humans to live and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future. It is believed to have originated with the Iroquois – Great Law of the Iroquois – which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead (about 140 years into the future) and decide whether the decisions they make today would benefit their children seven generations into the future.

It is frequently associated with the modern, popular concept of environmental stewardship or 'sustainability' but it is much broader in context "in ALL of your deliberations ..."

We do not have the right to destroy the natural world, the oceans, the forests, and the habitats of a myriad of plants and animals. We do not have the right to poison our atmosphere, and leave our children a smoking ruin of a planet. Our portfolios, our bank accounts, and our retirement savings are important. Yet, those personal commitments will mean nothing if we don't reverse the rate that CO2 and Methane are being injected every second of every day into the sky.

Communicating the dangers that confront us is a high priority. Real-world approches might be considered. A continuous stream of specific-issue climate objectives could be inserted into Radio/TV/Print/Online commercials and public service messaging. We can field messages that allow people to grow, understand and re-commit to principles consistent with shaping a healthy future.

"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine."
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