Grow more trees Save the rivers Stop wasting energy Transportation - everyone owns a car nowadays. Use public transport Stop burning fossil fuel Learn to adapt
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout let's agree to let the West burn. Y'all burn, baby! It's a culture war thing, you're to be encouraged! No tree hugging. Burn, baby drill and - whatever, everything and nothing, huhh?
I used to think that solution would have worked 20, 30 years ago. and since we ignored the climate boffins we were past the point of saving ourselves. But then Covid happened. People stayed indoors. They didn't drive or operate the factories that pollute the air and water and the Earth sighed in relief. Climate change can be reversed.
@Thevy29 Modern factories do not, or certainly should not, pollute anything and many countries have had very strict laws against doing so, for more than just six years ago. That can't stop carbon-dioxide emissions of course, although improving plant efficiency enhances CO2 reduction, public reputation and profits, so is attractive commercially
Partly or fully anthropogenetic climate change may be reversible but it probably won't happen rapidly. That does not mean we should give up of course, but we need be aware humanity has been its own worst enemy for a very long time and reparing the damage is not going to be easy.
The danger was forecast at least a hundred years ago, but not taken seriously for many years. Firstly, the all-embracing feeling was that all the world's problems would be solved by throwing enough science and engineering at them - but no-one stopped to think which science and engineering. Secondly the danger-point was forecast as far into the 21C, and trying to think 150 years (5 or 6 generations) hence is not easy for anyone.
Not cars as such; but we will have to find sensible alternatives to hydrocarbon fuels for most forms of transport without replacing one problem with others, and that is proving far harder than it seems.
It's relatively easy for the railways. Electric traction was proven in the late-19C and most countries with extensive railway systems use electrical power for many if not all routes.
For anything else, electrical power is much more difficult. Not impossible, obviously, but bringing other problems in its wake.
And we still have to generate all the electricity needed.
There is still a lot of resistance even to the basic problem of climate-change as well, driven by shallow politics, commerce and at a personal level, "petrol-head" vanity and ignorance; but that is slowly fading.
