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Climate Change (3 Main Views (Humans are impacting the climate(my opinion)…

- - - - "These folks know they don't have to win a legitimate scientific debate. They just need to divide the public. All of that hatred and fear is organized and funded by just a few players. Fossil fuel interests … finance a very large echo chamber of climate change denialism. They find people with very impressive looking credentials who are willing to sell those credentials to fossil fuel interests. Front groups funded by corporate interests" - Michael E. Man (US)
      - Solutions
        
        "Tougher Emissions and Efficiency Standards—New standards for cars are becoming a global phenomenon, whether it’s more stringent rules in China, the European Union or the U.S. As the world heads toward two billion vehicles, making sure that these cars emit less pollution—both smog-forming nitrogen oxides and heat-trapping carbon dioxide—will be crucial, whether it is accomplished via more efficient internal combustion engines or better hybrids. Electric cars, including the Chevy Volt, Nissan LEAF or Tesla Model S, can help, too, provided the electricity does not come from burning fossil fuels"
        
        "the "gigafactory," the latest project of Tesla founder Elon Musk. Once at full operation by 2020, the vast factory aims to be producing annually 500,000 electric vehicles and batteries/cells equal to 85 GWh/yr...What would it take to transition the whole world to sustainable energy? What kind of throughput would you actually need? You need a hundred gigafactories"
        
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        Dietary Changes/Awareness: Personally, this is the easiest way to make an impact on climate change. Cows are one of the top producers of methane gas. If we change our diets slightly to lean towards vegetables rather than beef it can make a huge change. It doesn't mean you have to ditch meat all together, just restricting the consumption of meat every once in a while can make a huge difference.
        
        Carbon Tax: "A carbon tax would be a tax on any activity that puts carbon into the atmosphere — everything in the transportation sector (flying, shipping, driving, etc) and energy development (oil, coal, etc). It’s based on the principle that if you tax it, people will consume less (because it’s costing them money)" Carbon taxing is a great way to limit the amount of carbon we emit.
        
        "47% of land is used for food production, and of that, 70% is used to grow feed for cattle"
    - - "We keep finding things that aren't in the climate models. That tells me that the projections for the future are really conservative. If the climate stays at the temperature that it's been in in the last decade, Greenland is going away" - Jason Box(Denmark)
      - "Current trends suggest that the Earth will warm by more than 4 degrees through man-made climate change. This will lead to catastrophic droughts, the collapse of agricultural belts, the collapse of marine ecosystems, severe storms, and much more."