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Jaccard's Citizen's Guide to Climate Success - Coggle Diagram
Jaccard's Citizen's Guide to Climate Success
Constraints
Global Dominance of Fossil Fuels
Corporations derive profit from them
Countries derive income from them
Employees get income from them
Lack of Global Governance
Countries that unilaterally restrict activities of FFcos will get complaints from Customer Corps, Employees and Consumers
Strategies for Countries
Focus on economic sectors less vulnerable to internaional competition
Transportation
BIG TICKET
Buildings
BIG TICKET
Low energy intensive sectors
Agriculture
REALLY? low energy?
Forestry
Strategies for Country Blocs
Introduce (a Bloc-wide Carbon Tax OR Emissions Trading Scheme) AND Import Carbon Tariff
Strategies for Citizens
Focus on efforts that are strategically effective ie BOTH have large effect AND are politically possible
OK SO WHICH?
Be aware of helpful trends
Accelerating Climate Change is making it harder to deny the urgency AND the forces driving it
The declining cost of renewable generation AND transportation technologies
Solar PV
Wind
Batteries
Electric Vehicles
Chinese global leadership in all the above is becoming an attractive model for other Global South countries
growing recognition of co-benefits of rapid de-carbonisation in developing countries - especially better Air Quality
Increasing numbers of middle class in Global North paying a premium to switch to renewable energy and electric vehicles
more switch following example
As individuals switch this puts more focus on harder-to-transform sectors
Become more analytical about politicians' actions (as opposed to what they say)
Are measures in place to phase out all fossil fuels?
Are measures in place to phase out petrol & diesel vehicles?
Challenge your firmly held beliefs by reading the arguments of opponents
(be a scientist - not a lawyer)
use of nuclear
might there be some circumstances where it might be allowed subject to appropriate disposal and oversight regimes?
use of biofuels
could there be a regulatory regime that managed environmental impacts, to allow use for harder-to-transform sectors eg long-haul trucking, essential air travel?
the drive for energy efficiency
Might this drive be exploited by the fossil fuel industry, and how might this be countered?
importance of carbon pricing
Is there an electorally acceptable alternative?