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Solar power is a kind of miracle, and now is cheap
It annoys the hell out of fossil fuel companies.
In African villages solar is transforming education
Kids can read at home under lights.
In Tuva, here, inside a yurt with solar panel outside (& why not)
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The iron cage of population arithmetic will soon change worldviews
As populations age & decline, will countries start active recruiting?
Japan will fall from 130 million to 80 M by end of this century
Now govt policy to recruit 350,000 new workers to come & stay
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The world once had 6 trillion trees, now 3 trillion
Planting a trillion, the right trees in right places, would grasp carbon
That’s 150 trees per person on the planet
3 a year across a working lifetime
Feels like this could work (if we don't cut them faster)
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Don’t fall into this trap:
Carbon capture & storage will do the trick
It will help, but not if it lets the affluent off the hook.
Emissions have to come down first – and by 50% globally in the 2020s
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Bird song creates space,
Lengthens the gap between the hills
Winter rain, horizontal and hard,
And then spring, and the world of spiders
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The birds are still flying, back & forth
So some normality remains
But under the surface, an unstitching occurs
Are there enough insects; is there water in pond and oasis
So, welcome to more rewilding, not least because it will sequester carbon
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Happiness improves longevity
& after a threshold, income does not increase happiness
Other things in life do: in nature, healthy food, togetherness, giving, physical activity
It so happens: most are low in material consumption
Interesting to see how Japan leads
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What we see: at low GDP, more is good
But then, happiness stops increasing as wealth grows
Some call this a paradox (Easterlin), but no surprise
The things that make us happy are not things
Togetherness, giving, nature, healthy food, crafts
All low carbon too
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In the length & depth of time, dye fades from clothes
How wonderful
The new “wear for 30” campaign is a reminder
Buy stuff you’re going to use, often, & again
And thus don’t replace
The consumer economy might crash, but well, biodiversity & climate will be saved
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We found 250M people in >8 M groups
Irrigation best managed collectively
Joint management of forests raises biodiversity
Microcredit groups save money
IPM reduces pesticide
Social capital, delivering benefits to economies + nature
https://t.co/Abmk3YPyRx
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There are many traditions of stopping & looking:
In Japan - snow-viewing, cherry blossom, fiery autumn leaves
As people are attentive & immersed,
& not a single bit of planet is being used up,
So the snow and blossom and leaves remain after consumption
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Here’s one: think of the good times in your life
Were there people involved?
Was nature present?
More often it is clear:
Togetherness & belonging are important, as are connections to nature
These little things increase well-being & save carbon
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Can we live within the doughnut, asks Kate Raworth?
Well, the list of cultures not threatening planetary boundaries
& yet flourishing is long
Hunter-gatherer & small farmer,
Many intentional choices within affluent countries
Live well with low carbon impact
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Volunteering is 4 times blessed
It benefits receiving people & nature
It improves health of volunteers (who live 2 years longer)
It undermines the idea that waged labour is all that matters
It is low carbon
Volunteering also does not appear in measures of GDP
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So here’s a question, a serious one:
What are/were your best moments in life?
Were they really, as the ads have it, the moment you could buy fast food again?
Was it when you could go to the shops?
Or was it something else…?
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Well, we know now that being in nature is good for mental health
Even more important is the local & accessible
Here the London River, as it long was called, where the wild is by industrial
And fishers at the shore, a day spent emitting almost no carbon at all
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So that we can sleep, well & long, dreaming happily:
The good things in life do not cost the earth
Good & healthy food, walking often, togetherness, every day in nature, some craft skill or art to stretch the mind
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Transport tonnes C/yr
Buy an electric vehicle (EV) – save 2.0 t
Stop driving, only cycle & walk – save 2.0 t
Avoid a flight: Lon-Rome cut saves 1.2 t return; Lon-Perth/Beijing/Tokyo cut save 6 tonnes return
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Energy
Install solar panels on your home or business – save 1-2 t/yr
Switch to a renewable only electricity supplier – save 1.7 t/yr
Install a heat pump – save 0.7 t/yr
Smart metering – save 0.2 t/yr
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Food & land: tonnes C/yr
Go vegetarian/vegan – save 0.8 t
Or adopt 3 meat-free days/wk – save 0.3 t
Eat only local, sustainable and organic foods – save 0.5 t
Plant 10 trees – but it takes 10 years to save 1 tonne
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