You only need three plots to understand everything about the climate crisis. The first is the Keeling-curve, which shows the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. The data are publicly available, and the figure below can be reproduced by anyone with an internet connection and a plotting program.
I want to add that soil destruction is the other thing we must combat. As Allan Savory express in his book Holistic Management: <<Each year, the earth loses seventy-five billion tons of soil to erosion, mostly from agricultural land. That's more than ten tons per human alive, or twenty times as much eroding soil as food requered per human each year.>> Soil is where all that CO2 comes from (petrol was soil many millions years ago) and the only safe place where it should return. Many address their attention to forest, but actually 2/3 of Earth are grasslands. Maybe this kind of funds from Global Climate Compensation would be address to stop soil degradation but applying an Holistic Management.
Hi Cristian. I agree. And there are some other problems too. However, the challenge at the moment is that everything is going in the wrong direction. Climate change is a uniquely wicked problem, as it does not respect boundaries. Countries might have an interest in protecting their forests and their soil, but it is impossible to protect the climate unless the other nations also do so. It is the Tragedy of the Commons combined with the Prisoner's Dilemma.
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I want to add that soil destruction is the other thing we must combat. As Allan Savory express in his book Holistic Management: <<Each year, the earth loses seventy-five billion tons of soil to erosion, mostly from agricultural land. That's more than ten tons per human alive, or twenty times as much eroding soil as food requered per human each year.>> Soil is where all that CO2 comes from (petrol was soil many millions years ago) and the only safe place where it should return. Many address their attention to forest, but actually 2/3 of Earth are grasslands. Maybe this kind of funds from Global Climate Compensation would be address to stop soil degradation but applying an Holistic Management.
I left here the link for anyone who wants to know more about: https://savory.global/what-is-holistic-management/
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Hi Cristian. I agree. And there are some other problems too. However, the challenge at the moment is that everything is going in the wrong direction. Climate change is a uniquely wicked problem, as it does not respect boundaries. Countries might have an interest in protecting their forests and their soil, but it is impossible to protect the climate unless the other nations also do so. It is the Tragedy of the Commons combined with the Prisoner's Dilemma.
This is a crystal clear demonstration of why climate is an emergency, Henrik!