Mango what would your top solutions be?
I am of the school of, we have to make nations richer so they have the resources to deal with climate change. We can’t go back, so it makes sense to prepare for the inevitable.
That means nuclear where appropriate (solar and wind do not power civilisations), I mean, even Iran has a civilian nuclear energy program, so I don’t think the spread is an issue.
India needs a better nuclear program they use a lot of coal so does China but they could expand nuclear if they had the political will. But they import massive amount of coal from Oz so?
African countries and poor Asian economies need cheap fossil fuels. Unavoidable really. If climate change makes natural disasters worse, they need a wealthy economy to deal with it. Plenty of resources to fund stable housing and mitigation efforts. Deaths from disasters goes down as wealth goes up, I think it’s a strong enough correlation.
For developed economies just more push to urbanise so ridesharing and other forms of commute are feasible, also economies of scale wrt resources, rewild more spaces outside of cities.
But large-scale agribusiness are what feeds the planet so hard no to permaculture or urban farming or allotments, these are niche for a middle class market. GMOs to enable plants to survive in more arid climes. Also solid evidence that CO2 allows plants to thrive despite water shortages so could be an upside to all this.
also U.K. is so odd in that secondary cities truly are secondary, more needs to be done to make them attractive places to settle and work.
Hard no to solar and wind farms. Land use for power generated is terrible. Maybe solar on existing build but depends if the productions and decommissioning of panels makes it worthwhile. I’m not convinced tbh