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What Is Needed
What is needed is a more people-oriented approach. How are people impacted by climate change in their everyday lives? How do people cope or fail to cope with climate change? How are people's attitudes related to the climate actions they are most likely to endorse (e.g., infrastructure, green shift, wait and see, or no action needed)?
We need to be asking people: 1) Is the green shift easy or difficult? 2) Is the green shift affordable or unaffordable? 3) Is there an existing infrastructure to support and sustain a green shift in your town or city? and 4) Why do you think climate change is real or unreal?
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
1. All persons have the inalienable and God-given right to live and thrive in a healthy biosphere and a healthy sociosphere.
2. Each nation must do more to help its people understand climate change, to prepare them, to protect them, and to help them embrace new infrastructure and green shifts in an easy and affordable way.
3. Planet Earth will unquestionably warm to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels well before the parties to the Paris 2015 agreement and COP climate conferences will transition to clean, renewable sources of energy and net zero emissions. It is time to rethink global warming and transition strategies.
4. Planet Earth requires immediate emergency climate change actions (e.g., conservation, satellite detection, carbon capture, carbon storage, desalination plants, flood protection, flood proofing, river diversion, habitat restoration, etc.) and cannot wait for the world community to transition to clean, renewable energy and net zero emissions. 5. Planet Earth requires immediate concrete transition actions, such as halting methane released and/or accidentally leaked from coal mines, natural gas, and oil production facilities. (Methane, as opposed to carbon dioxide, traps more heat in the atmosphere, is 25 times more potent, and accounts for 30% of the rise in global temperature.)
6. The onset of compounded and clustered extreme weather events is a foreshadowing of what is to come: more frequent, less interspersed, more widespread, and more devastating extreme weather events that will consume an increasing proportion of a nation's GDP.
7. Climate change impacts each nation differently. Each nation faces unique challenges to transition to sustainable clean sources of energy (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biomass, green hydrogen, and nuclear fusion) in an affordable, orderly, and just manner, and each nation must develop a unique algorithm to meet their changing demand for energy.
8. Transition success depends on each nation developing diverse sources of sustainable clean energy while utilizing a measured amount of fossil fuels (e.g., oil, coal, and natural gas) to ensure an orderly, safe, fair, and sustainable transition to net zero emissions and to ensure a reliable source of back-up power. 9. Smart planners in each nation will be needed to balance conservation and development in order to protect both the climate and biodiversity. Smart planners worldwide will be needed to prevent mass human migrations from degraded/uninhabitable zones. 10. Since climate change is a complex, multidimensional, and unprecedented challenge to life on Planet Earth, it will require in each nation on-going monitoring and intervention by multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, and planners.
11. In the USA, a successful transition to clean, renewable sources of energy while safeguarding natural resources, the economy, national security, and all civilian communities will require an unprecedented bipartisan effort and input from all sectors of society. 12. Climate Change Plan B invites all Americans to help educate America about climate change and the new historic green opportunities to Build-Up America.
3. Planet Earth will unquestionably warm to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels well before the parties to the Paris 2015 agreement and COP climate conferences will transition to clean, renewable sources of energy and net zero emissions. It is time to rethink global warming and transition strategies.
4. Planet Earth requires immediate emergency climate change actions (e.g., conservation, satellite detection, carbon capture, carbon storage, desalination plants, flood protection, flood proofing, river diversion, habitat restoration, etc.) and cannot wait for the world community to transition to clean, renewable energy and net zero emissions. 5. Planet Earth requires immediate concrete transition actions, such as halting methane released and/or accidentally leaked from coal mines, natural gas, and oil production facilities. (Methane, as opposed to carbon dioxide, traps more heat in the atmosphere, is 25 times more potent, and accounts for 30% of the rise in global temperature.)
6. The onset of compounded and clustered extreme weather events is a foreshadowing of what is to come: more frequent, less interspersed, more widespread, and more devastating extreme weather events that will consume an increasing proportion of a nation's GDP.
7. Climate change impacts each nation differently. Each nation faces unique challenges to transition to sustainable clean sources of energy (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biomass, green hydrogen, and nuclear fusion) in an affordable, orderly, and just manner, and each nation must develop a unique algorithm to meet their changing demand for energy.
8. Transition success depends on each nation developing diverse sources of sustainable clean energy while utilizing a measured amount of fossil fuels (e.g., oil, coal, and natural gas) to ensure an orderly, safe, fair, and sustainable transition to net zero emissions and to ensure a reliable source of back-up power. 9. Smart planners in each nation will be needed to balance conservation and development in order to protect both the climate and biodiversity. Smart planners worldwide will be needed to prevent mass human migrations from degraded/uninhabitable zones. 10. Since climate change is a complex, multidimensional, and unprecedented challenge to life on Planet Earth, it will require in each nation on-going monitoring and intervention by multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, and planners.
11. In the USA, a successful transition to clean, renewable sources of energy while safeguarding natural resources, the economy, national security, and all civilian communities will require an unprecedented bipartisan effort and input from all sectors of society. 12. Climate Change Plan B invites all Americans to help educate America about climate change and the new historic green opportunities to Build-Up America.