Three Surprising Solutions To Climate Change
Summary
When the analysts at Project Drawdown quantified the impact of 100 solutions to climate change, they were surprised by some of their results, the organizations executive director said in a recent appearance at Carnegie-Mellon University. "Some solutions were a total surprise," said Jonathan Foley, an atmospheric scientist who took the helm of Project Drawdown late last year, after the list was made. We know what we have to do to avoid a climate catastrophe: eat a plant-rich diet, change our energy mix, electrify transport, reverse deforestation. The bad news is, they wait like a climate time bomb in millions of air conditioners, refrigerators and freezers already deployed across the world. Can we make sure we dispose of an air conditioning unit or a cooling device, refrigerator, freezer, so that the gases in those coils are recovered or at least destroyed if not recycled?"