Planet has until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change

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Change as much as you can as Fast as you can! (or we are all beyond f****d.)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/world/cl ... index.html

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

America needs a government fully run by democrats asap or we're all doomed.

Things might change if enough property of the very wealthy or mega-corporations are threatened or even destroyed by increasingly intense storms or crushed by record breaking snowfall.

Yeah, we're dead.

I hope this whole planet does get ****ed and I hope the entire human species goes extinct.

God if you are really out there and you are listening to me please try better next time, OK?

There is "climate change," for sure.

The question is: is it caused by manmade agents, or by normal climactic variation?

Since Al Gore is now separated (or divorced, nobody knows) and lives in the Marina District near Nancy Pelosi at a house just feet from the San Francisco Bay, I choose to use him as my barometer for "global warming" warnings. The moment his expansive manor sees puddles in its humidor, panic rooms and its "housekeepers' suite of bedrooms" (think about it...), I will grow some concern. Until then, I will chuckle, roll my eyes and wish I had never met him.

I don't believe "the end is nigh."

But I do believe in preserving our natural resources. Even conservatives like Rutherford B. Hayes believed in preserving our national resources. Some of our main national parks were founded in the 19th century.

I do know that people could not fish in the Hudson River in NYC 30 years ago. Now they can.

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Animal Farm (MAN, I love that book, by the way. It should be required reading for everyone on the planet).

So many people say we need to do "something" to reverse "climate change" but no one ever seems to throw out many examples.

I'll get it started?

We can't expect the plutocrats, the 1% or jet-setting government officials and workers to drastically pare down their lifestyles because, well, they deserve to live the way they do (see above Animal Farm quote.....)

-The 99% in the industrialized nations should be required to live "carbon neutral" lives.
-Tiny houses, solar powered.
-Electric cars but only if they're charged by solar power.
-Consumption of food approved to be raised in a carbon neutral manner. No more meat.
-Collectively, the 99% exhale a lot of carbon dioxide so humans are the problem. As such, each person that exists should pay a global carbon tax. A tax on your life. A tax for simply being alive.
-Unnecessary travel (e.g. vacations, movies, restaurants, etc) is just that, unnecessary. Therefore those activities should also be taxed additionally.
-None of the 99% should be allowed to cut down any trees on their property for firewood, etc. It should be illegal.
-No more petroleum usage on the planet (except for the 1%). Recycle all petroleum powered vehicles owned by the 99%.
-No more coal usage on the planet.
-Only the 1% or government jet-setters should be allowed to fly.
-Only those that have to (approved farms and the 1%) should be allowed to live outside of urban settings. It's too difficult to police people when they live in rural areas.
-Water rationing should occur for the 99% everywhere, even in areas of the world where the water supply is ample.
-Sorting recycling should be mandated for the 99% by law.
-Remember mandatory high school assemblies? Community climate awareness meetings should be mandatory for anyone over the age of five and be held on a monthly basis so the 99% are kept abreast of the continually changing climate laws and regulations.
-Pets also emit carbon dioxide and are unnecessary. A hefty tax should be levied on pet ownership as a result. The only exemption should be service animals.
-"Climate police"? mmmm too authoritarian. "Climate monitors"? sounds too nit picky. "Earth advocates". That might work. Local "Earth Advocates" should be hired in every 99% community to monitor the compliance of every citizen and be given the legal authority to inspect a 99% property or the interior of their home at will. If a 99%er is found to be breaking climate laws, the "Earth advocate" would be obligated to report the person immediately.

I think those are some things that should get the ball rolling at least?

To clarify, I'm not advocating the above measures be adopted, I'm playing devil's advocate and positing that proponents for mitigating climate change would, I assume, believe at lease some if not all of those examples be adopted.