Yes, ok. Global warming. It’s bad. Bad. Got it. I think I’ve got it now.
“But… what can I DO about it?”
That question is what we want to answer here. What more than just recycling, what more than buying less-damaging things, what more than reducing a carbon footprint? Rather than just make ourselves less damaging, what can we do, actively …
We had the pleasure of attending a conference talk by Marc Tarpenning, founder of Tesla and partner at Spero Ventures. While telling his story, he showed the above slide, which we present here as a gem of simplicity.
Climate change is a confoundingly, crippingly complicated thing to talk about, and the many solutions to it are just as convoluted.
Of course they are complicated! It’s all tangled in an inextricable web of complex natural systems — in the soil, it the oceans, in the atmosphere, and (in the case of solutions) in the wildest aspirational bounds of our imaginations. ….
When countless millions put their lives and careers on hold to blunt the exponential fury of Covid-19, they also idled their cars, boats, and planes. Likewise trucks, power plants, factories, container ships, trains — all the engines driving global industry and climate change — fell still, and quiet, and idle, if only for a moment.
People took to social media to celebrate the cleaner, fresher air ….
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