4/26/2024
What the Climate Action Summit 2024 does not discuss:
The feeble responses to global warming amount to
a slow but accelerating genocide.
Planned economic activities continue to make densely populated
areas unlivable and to destroy ecosystems, which indigenous people
of many areas depend on. Scientists, activists, authors, science
journalists and leaders of NGOs, please help with educating people!
We do not need decades to start reversing global warming! And we
will be happier and healthier if we live more simply, avoid credit
buying, focus on ethics and recognize that the pursuit of wealth and
power often becomes an addiction.
We must not ask “what is politically possible?”, but “what is
needed?” and then demand decisive government actions – broad
emergency powers will be needed.
A goal has to be saving resources and energy in every way possible.
We must broadly use cooling white paints to minimize the need for air
conditioning; transition to mostly plant-based diets; build ultra-light
electric minicars and a dense network of trains, many narrow track
light rail; and, instead of concrete and steel, use mainly wood and
bamboo for buildings, vehicles, rail cars, bridges, wind turbine towers,
etc. (by weight, cross-laminated timber and bamboo are similarly
strong as steel).
The earth needs much more vegetation: we must reforest large
areas, expand mangrove forests and cultivate fast-growing plants,
such as bamboo, kelp, and duckweed. We also must prevent the rapid
decomposition or burning of organic materials, including landfill trash.
Organic material may be kept in dry, ice-cold, or anoxic environments,
for example buried in earth that is immersed in stagnant water.
Governments must establish and fund public-private partnership
nonprofit enterprises to transform industries, transportation systems
and land management; bank lending must be severely restricted.
People need a guaranteed income and comprehensive safety net.
There must be high taxation on all greenhouse gas releases, including
methane leaking from oil wells, and on wealth.