Regenerative Earth 10 steps to a stable climate
as our planet reaches various
tipping point and feedback cycles we are
filled with anxiety
with fear with frustration anger perhaps
but also a sense of tension
between that what we know we have to
achieve and that we haven’t achieved yet
and we’re asking ourselves how could
that be how could there
be no progress significant progress in
the last 25
35 years of climate action and
negotiations
and we believe this is largely because
we have been pointing in the wrong
direction with our targets
we should be pointing downward at
lower temperatures not higher
temperatures at lower co2 emissions in
the atmosphere not higher ones
25 years ago 35 years ago when this all
started
to become popular we already had to
match co2 in the atmosphere
350 parts per million as opposed to 280
for the last million years now we’re at
4 15.
we’re even higher in methane we were
higher in methane back then
we had too much carbon there never been
a carbon budget
and so this is something that science is
now beginning to realize
and therefore action has to follow
we would like to pursue with you with
the world
10 action points which are so crucial in
moving it to another level
into another plane of effectiveness
the first point is to establish national
and international climate defense
budgets which are focused on mobilizing
our economy our society
to focus on this core issue
it’s not a marginal issue it’s a central
issue
the second point is that we want to
embrace
internationally and bilateral climate
diplomacy initiatives peace initiatives
that bring down the tensions
the military exchanges uh the warfare
and focus on the common enemy of fossil
fueled climate change
third point very crucial is to change
our emission targets
from up to down from
a budget of 400 gigatons to a budget
that is already
depleted to reverse the flow of
emissions
back into the economy back into our
agriculture back into our forests
and oceans fourth
in order to do that we also have to
declare fossil fuels as
undesirable as toxic we have to tax them
as the source
we know that they’re harmful to our
health we know that they’re harmful
to our climate stability let’s make the
next step
begin to accept and out of our economic
reality
fifth we would like to
engage in a fossil fuel restructuring
program
of national and global proportions to
help the industries
reconstruct and redirect themselves
the sixth point goes hand in hand which
is to build up a regenerative
economy that boosts jobs
opportunities in education research and
renewable energy and regenerative
technologies
the next point is also very very crucial
the seventh point
of bio sequestration to enable our
agriculture
and our forests and our wetlands to
sequester carbon from the atmosphere in
a massive scale
that goes hand in hand with the eighth
point which is
industrial sequestration to build carbon
fiber-based materials for airplanes for
cars
for our buildings but also use
wood sustainably harvested as the
primary
production base for the building and
architectural industries
and the ninth point is also
very very crucial they’re all important
is to use this extraordinary boost of
our economy
that is going to ensue has to ensue
in this mobilized economy to employ
resettle
the one to three billion refugees that
we expect in the next 50 years
due to building as usual building as
usual
climate change and so this migration
wave
needs to be anticipated it’s welcome to
us in our boosted economies
and finally the 10th point is to look at
the finance industry
and rebuild it into an industry that
rewards short-term gain
into an industry that has the levels to
reward long-term sustainable investments
but also one that captures future
differential cost
savings and rewards them today to what
we call
future banks so here are 10 points
and we’ve been delighted to contribute
to this course this global discourse
on how to stabilize our climate