The great escape - to a coherent whole planet solution by climaterescue

Dear climaterescue How can whole #systemchange enable fast #climaterescue? https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1300701/planId/1310001 … We want system change fast, we must change policy of 1 countries . You can change a group , a team very easy . Change a policy of a country even very difficult but will give you ability that you can change system of 1 country . If policy of 1 country change like your policy , system will change like you wish . But affect the policy of a country is difficult and affect policies of all country is top difficult if you want " whole system change " .

Dear climaterescue , Global security = climate security + food security + economic security + environmental security + national security + water security +... If I were you , I will change it like this : Global security = climate security + + population security + food security + economic security + environmental security + national security + water security +... . We have a limit of population , but no one talk about it because no one know it . For example, many countries have small weapons spending but this doesn't stop the rise of global weapons spending and conflicts around the world. We have weapons don't meant we attack or use weapons . When we attack others countries with weapons , that is another problem . All I've seen is weak efforts at weak agreements on selected topics. Perhaps a really coherent solution wouldn't be so difficult if actually tried?! Because interests between country and country are different , that why they never try . All formal education will aim to be led by curiosity rather than just delivery of predetermined content Rapid reduction of carbon emissions and the rapid expansion of carbon sinks. In my opinion , we should teach them focus more on carbon sinks - it look like we attack climate change

Thanks Huynh Population is an interesting dynamic. Less security means more population, so best limited by doing all 7 actions to get global security. Action 4 on weapons spending should be done globally. Even when not used, $1t of weapons still means $1t less to spend solving any other problem. Are there really any countries where global security is not relevant? Perhaps countries don't try action on the necessary scale of ambition because too few people tell them to do it? Carbon sinks and emissions cuts are both needed. Please see the related proposal for actions on each. https://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/1300404/phaseId/1300404/planId/1309209

Releasing the power of example is exactly how the issues of acid rain and the destruction of the ozone layer was solved as you can read from my proposal and here: http://www.e-ir.info/2013/03/16/climate-change-the-lessons-from-history/ Simultaneous action again was the starting point for the Kyoto-protocol, and also the goal of the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009. I would love to to be able to say that they were successes.

The debt swap part of my proposal on the other hand is compatible with both simultaneous or staged action. By taking away developed countries main excuse for not participating in a climate treaty, the developed countries carbon debts, it would smooth the road for simultaneous action on climate change. See my proposal or here for further details: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bf2k0dz

Right it is the action that solves the problems, but the timing of the action has a great impact regarding climate change. That is why, we do not have time to wait for everyone to act simultaneously, someone must take the first steps, and the others follow. You are right that my proposal does not really cut the carbon debt in physical terms, for that we would need negative total emissions, such as your carbon pump proposal could achieve. The purpose of the debt swap is to end the blame game on who is responsible for climate change so that we can concentrate on the mitigation and adaptation.

Proposal only includes one sub-proposal, by the same author. It thus does not meet the contest prompt which requested that authors create an integrated vision that combined multiple ideas from other contests.