Ways We Can Mitigate Climate Change

We’ve spent a bunch of time this year examining the many, many health effects of climate change. And while we are no experts on climate change and what the best solutions are to address it, we are clearly interested in addressing it for the sake of public health. So, leaning on the works of actual climate change experts, we’re going to dig into what look like some of the most promising mitigation strategies at the moment.

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[markotrieste]

First and foremost, plenty of renewables everywhere. Then, insulate homes, electrify everything, ride bikes, e-bikes and public transport, especially trains.

[pnwmeditations]

IIRC, the Princeton Zero Lab project argues that even if decarbonization effort's only impact was to improve respiratory health across the population, it would be worth the investment in terms of lives saved and healthcare costs averted.

Following energy policy people on socials is a bright spot in the news cycle for me. It gives me hope when I see people so doggedly tackling such a big problem. It compelled me to do my own small part; trading my gas car for a used EV, using an e-bike as much as I can, and most recently replacing a gas water heater with a heat pumped electric one.

[tiacho]

I always wonder about people that want to engineer future technologies to fix a problem that has a simple solution. There are a lot of methods to reduce carbon emissions but until there are financial incentives or advantages to use those methods, cheaper fossil fuels win. Just look at the USA with the lowest gas prices in the industrialised world and the hugely inefficient vehicles that are the top sellers. But still pickup truck owners (owned only for their vanity) complain about fueling their huge inefficient vehicle.

[tatianatub]

the best strategy is not to burn in the first palce

leave it in the ground

[Trusty]

Reducing consumerism would do wonders for the climate, it doesn't matter what solutions we apply if the root of the problem is not taken care of

[JorgeSanchez-jebt]

I feel we are growing old together. Here is to growing in knowledge and in age.

[MrHeff]

The answer: trains, bikes and smart urban planning. There’s will always be cars, and ev’s aren’t the silver bullet solution.

[Thaythichgiachanh]

Thank you very much for your valuable information ♥👍👍

[barbaramorse]

Just vote #MarianneWilliamson2024. Simple.

[sixvee]

“I accepted to come to this meeting to have a sober and mature conversation. I’m not in any way signing up to any discussion that is alarmist. There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says that the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5C.”
- Sultan Al Jaber, President of COP 28, also CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

Seems more and more likely, scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment may come to fruition (or at least the higher end of the spectrum). I say enjoy what you can, while you still can; pity the generations to come.

[ZennExile]

Why just mitigate the Carbon Crisis when it would be so cheap and easy to end it? You do understand that Industrial Agriculture has a much larger footprint than the Energy Industry right? And if we repair the global Rhizosphere in an effort to re-wild as much land as we possibly can over the next 25 years that will move thousands of gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere into the soil, just through processing 25% of the organic waste we already produce?

Oh you don't have any data on that? No estimation of how much carbon industrial agriculture put into the atmosphere by digesting a large majority of global biomass to make way for cash crops and making sure the land is poisoned to prevent the recovery of the Rhizosphere, the largest concentration of terrestrial biomass, which also happens to be a natural globally scaled carbon sync that is no longer operational.

I guess that means all your conclusions are wrong by exactly how much carbon was contained in the BILLIONS of hectare Industrial Agriculture dug up, burned away, and kept poisoned for the last century. And maybe you should gather some more data before trying to spread blatantly false information.

[cassieoz]

EVs absolutely cannot be supported by our current grid supply. We need vastly more distribution infrastructure as well as generation to support enough to be useful. Useful transport options for urban dwellers but still not practical for us farmers. Excuse my cynicism when I saw all the activists marching against climate change, then going home to their air-conditioned homes (in the high density, concrete, heat islands)

[PaaMrefu]

Demand-pull policies to encourage plant-based dietary choices would help reduce ~20% GHG and make those negative emissions technologies (eg afforestation & reforestation) much more achievable. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation and uses massive amounts of water, which could be better used towards climate change mitigation. Why this never seems to come up as a HUGE and relatively achievable option in the climate discourse is baffling.

[oldineamiller]

There is no climate crisis and therefore there is nothing to mitigate.