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Your heart's in the right place, but trying to save the world by focusing on a gas in our atmosphere is probably not the best way to do it.

Whether you're right or not about C02 being a problem, it's more important that we increase child nutrition and education, having a couple million more smart & able people to help with stewarding Humanity and Earth will probably do everyone a lot more help. This piece explains this position well: https://youtu.be/T7pwFxQqOxQ

Also, you're not going to want to hear this but the global climate is a lot more nuanced than most scientists realize. How many of them can handle the concepts of electrical engineering? The climate models have not been taking particle forcing into account, they've all been assuming a simplistic view of the Earth's dynamics akin to a steam engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYoOcaqCzxo

How can we reduce the cost of food sustenance by an order of magnitude? How could this challenge be applied to a town, city, region, or type of citizen?

How can city-threatening wildfires be prevented? Malibu, Paradise, Chico, Santa Rosa, Thomas - and now how can these areas of desolation be stewarded back into a vibrant state? It could be possible to prevent the devastating mudslides some of these areas have now experienced.

My ideas around these questions have me imagining things that may require new systems of economy, agreement & responsibility. I look at our wild spaces, and I see messes of tangled bush. Can we manicure these lands in a way that encourages more vibrant growth of native species while creating natural fire blocks? What if these areas could also begin becoming food sources, helping with that first question I posed?

As it is now, most any ravine around my town is clogged with deadfall and could make for a city-razing fire in the worst of cases. Fixing this manually would be a massive effort, but what if we could set tens of thousands of people to task at it, while sheltering, feeding, caring for and educating them? If we can empower a much greater portion of our population to have these basic needs met, we may be setting free a number of great minds to pursue helping advance the state of our consciousness.

With the changes to jobs availability, we should embrace novel new ways to 'make a living'. The rules that have brought us this far are great. We're capable of improving upon them.

Can we create simulation games that would help us ponder these questions better? There are so many variables at play, this should be the next MMORPG fad. How else can we tinker with new ideas around massive human efforts?

How about we collaborate on sending money and resources towards robotics clubs, maker spaces, and other groups that obviously try to push the envelope of what's real?

Today’s Space Weather News touches on the ‘black hole’ at the center of our galaxy (2:30), and mentions a presentation by the director of Princeton’s Plasma Physics Lab on the magnetic universe. We may really be amidst a Copernican level shift in thinking about how our universe actually operates: https://youtu.be/YX8afWRQkIk

Whatever’s happening with the climate, we should be working to mitigate the risks - decrease the cost of food while increasing resilience of production; same goes for our infrastructure, what else? I get the feeling we’re being snowed with all this hyperbole around CO2 and rhe warming planet. Bottom line is we need to become stewards of the Earth and Sea; fretting about carbon emissions is a distraction.

Totally agree. I have a couple visions of attainable infrastructure evolutions, we should have every city and county helping sponsor X Prizes that would help us attain incredible improvements: • elevate all city infrastructure up off the ground, 100 feet or more. If you figure that out you get arable, natural landscapes back and you keep your city too. • How to bring light down to the ground underneath it all? I say we build transparent canals, use their shape to lense light through and around. • these canals, there could be extra channels/tubes added to store and process dirty, utility and drinkable water • create food programs that bring growing, harvesting, finishing and cooking down into the crowds of us who’d want to participate. Can we reduce the cost of food by orders of magnitude?

Can you share some examples? I wonder if my own searching will reveal many.