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False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Editorial Note: This is Part 6 of Mary Wildfire\u2019s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, <\/a>Part 2 on Transportation here<\/a>, Part 3 on Agriculture here,<\/a> Part 4 on Buildings here.<\/a> and Part 5 on Geoengineering here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real but beginning to bite. Now that much of the population is finally feeling the urgency\u2014and during a time when COVID19  has much of our frenetic commerce on hold, giving us a space for thinking and discussion\u2013what can we do to protect the only planet we\u2019ve got? Unfortunately a good many of the solutions on offer seem designed to quiet the increasing concern, the impetus to do something,<\/em> without challenging the status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can we get real solutions and still maintain economic growth, population growth, and the growth of inequality? Are we entitled to an ever-rising standard of living? I believe the answer is no; we need some profound transformations if we are to leave our grandchildren a planet that resembles the one we grew up on, rather than a dystopian Hell world.  This is the basic theme of the controversial Michael Moore produced film Planet of the Humans<\/em>. I see that film as seriously flawed, but agree with its basic message\u2014that it\u2019s time for humanity to grow up and accept limits, get over what I call human exceptionalism, or androtheism\u2014the notion that man is God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A veritable cornucopia of false solutions is being pushed these days, not only by corporations and think tanks but by the UN\u2019s IPCC, the international body responsible for research and action on climate.\u00a0 We could have made a gentle transition if we had begun when we first became aware of this problem decades ago, but for various reasons we did not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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False Solutions to Climate Change: Real Solutions Editorial Note: This is Part 6 of Mary Wildfire\u2019s series on false solutions to climate change. You can read Part 1 on Electricity here, Part 2 on Transportation here, Part 3 on Agriculture here, Part 4 on Buildings here. and Part 5 on Geoengineering here. It\u2019s become increasingly clear that climate change is not only real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[141,391,435,23138,27343,6665,826],"class_list":["post-53187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-growth","tag-international-panel-on-climate-change","tag-mary-wildfire","tag-planet-of-the-humans","tag-resilience-org","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53189,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53187\/revisions\/53189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}