‘A Repair Manual for the Planet’: What Would It Take to Restore Our Atmosphere? | “Optimism and hope are muscles we have to exercise,” climate scientist Rob Jackson says. His new book offers a paradigm for how to think about climate change and the health of the planet.

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1. We must end carbon pollution, today. We must also transition to being actively carbon negative, aggressively extracting carbon pollution from the atmosphere, also essentially ‘today’.

   To accomplish this, we must abandon the entire concept of ‘cost’ and ‘money’. Profits can no longer be a goal. Humanity needs to stop working for themselves and start working for the planet and species as a whole. We will be living meager lives, focusing solely on providing basic needs of all are met

   All, and I mean all of our remaining energy and technology must be applied towards carbon pollution extraction and sequestering. This cannot be a fringe industry lobbying for investments, but the entire weight of the global machine.

   This is a problem caused by multigenerational actions, and the last gasp solution proposed here will also be a multigenerational effort. But it’s what’s necessary at this time. We have long passed our chances to simply steer our civilization towards a greener path. But the alternative is our personal answer to the Fermi paradox. Even if climate change isn’t our extinction, once we lose our technology through civilization collapse, we cannot get it back. All readily accessible sources of energy have been exhausted. It’s fascinating watching our species worry about fake money when our entire existence and any chance at having a future place in the greater universe is at stake