2. Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species— man— acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
1962

8. Adopt specific energy efficiency measures (49% of emissions savings).
Limit the construction and use of the least-efficient coal-fired power plants (21%).
Minimise methane (CH4) emissions from upstream oil and gas production (18%).
Accelerate the (partial) phase-out of subsidies to fossil-fuel consumption (12%).
‘Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map’
International Energy Agency
World Energy Outlook Special Report, June 2013

9. Shrink the financial industry. Reduce economic inequality.
Share more.
Create community.
Shrink the financial industry.
Reduce economic inequality.
Stabilize and reduce population levels through family planning.
Decentralize food and energy systems.
Build resilience throughout society.
Replace GDP with an economic indicator that measures quality of life and environmental integrity.
Worker ownership of organizations.
Richard Heinberg
MuseLetter #253, June 2013 and 2013 BCEA Keynote

12. How come people are working on something else (fiddling while the ice melts)?

13. academics […] have a special obligation because they have more freedom than those in government service or company employees subject to commercial pressure.
Martin Rees

15. It’s not too late to decarbonise.

16. a Citizen’s Carbon Income (Or is there a better plan?)
One clear goal –
a Citizen’s Carbon Income
(Or is there a better plan?)