![]() ![]() But if a girl is allowed to continue education and pass tenth or eleventh grade, her reproduction rate falls to two-which is why the empowerment of girls and women is the number one solution to global warming. Those girls tend to have five children or more. One is to provide education for girls in those countries where they are taken out of school in fifth and sixth grade, and married off, because of cultural, religious, or other forces. The difference between the high and the median population projections comes from family planning. The highest is 10.8 billion, the median is 9.7 billion. The idea that the United States is all-powerful is an American illusion.Īs regards family planning, the United Nations has a three population projections for 2050-high, median, and low. I think it will have some effect, but not much. What he's done is simply project ignorance to satisfy his right-wing supporters. Explain how this will also have a powerful, negative effect on climate change. President Trump recently introduced a global gag rule on family planning. ![]() What climate change is offering us is actually a new way of seeing ourselves, our relationship to each other, and all living beings on this planet, which can be extraordinary in terms of imagination, innovation, creativity, and real breakthroughs in human thinking. It's actually to a much better future: cleaner, healthier, with more jobs, more security, and more life on the planet. This is not a path to retrogression or a future that we won't like. Here, we have feedback, and the feedback it's giving us is a pathway to a much better world than the one we live in now. Climate change is feedback, and any system that doesn't incorporate that feedback is stupid and fails and dies. Michael Pollan, the writer and activist, once said that the biggest question facing us with regard to climate change is: Why bother? Have you got an answer for us? The Science Guy explains what causes climate change, how it affects our planet, why we need to act promptly to mitigate its effects, and how each of us can contribute to a solution. That’s why we include 100 different strategies. I'm just saying a great number of salient, important solutions are often left out. Those solutions are crucial to achieving drawdown as well, so I'm not in any way diminishing their importance. All of us have heard again and again that if we go to solar, wind, and renewable energy-and maybe electric vehicles and storage-prevent deforestation, and reduce meat consumption, we will get a hall pass to the 22nd century. If you just find it and pull it, somehow we're going to get rid of this problem and stabilize emissions. There has been a tendency to silver bullet the problem, which is to look for the big solution: the Archimedean lever. There has never been an attempt to map, measure, and model the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. The idea for Project Drawdown goes back to 2001. What is “ Drawdown ”? And how is it different from other methods of tackling global warming? ![]() When National Geographic caught up with Hawken at his home in San Francisco, he explained why climate change is a gift, not a curse why empowering girls and women is the number one solution and what role musk ox, reindeer, and wolves have to play. ![]()
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