The Five Necessary Things to Do to Face the Climate Crisis

Facing the climate crisis is the biggest problem humanity has today. What amazes me is how little humanity is doing to face the issue and the superficial thinking about it.

Months ago, I wrote about how big a disconnect exists between what we think is being done and the reality of the situation. We are failing across the board.

Then I blasted the COP27 conference as a total failure, consistent with the prior 26 meetings that nation states have had going back to the 1990s. We are no closer to facing the big issues of the climate collapse. A key reason is that nation states will inherently fail to face global problems. They can’t because they are trapped in nationalistic thinking. The other key reason for failure to date is the superficial thinking and lack of understanding of the dynamics of this existential crisis. I will start to address this part of the maddening failure in this column.

Having given dozens of presentations around the world – including to NASA, the EPA, and several top-level national energy laboratories- I am stunned by the vast amount of people's superficial thinking regarding climate. The superficial thinking is that what humanity has to do to deal with this successfully is to get off of fossil fuels ASAP.

That is absolutely and urgently true. However, it is only one of the six necessary things humanity must do in the years and decades ahead if we face the climate crisis successfully.

In the near future, I will delve into each of these six essential efforts. Today I will list them with some limited commentary on each.

Here are the big six initiatives that will be essential if we want civilization as we know it to exist by 2075-2100.