First, people need to accept that we exist within a culture of overconsumption that directly contributes to climate change. Sacrifices to common conveniences will need to be made before we can make any meaningful change.

I’m not saying this is all on the individual. Corporations contribute tremendous waste. But they do so in service to society’s demand for convenience and instant gratification. We all need to learn to live with less.

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I dont think its as simple as “tax billionaires out of existence and ban jets, airplanes, and cars” because thats not realistic.

is not something we can skip as ducking billionaires and private jers are a large part of the reason we’re here in the first place.

Ban private jets, all of them. Maybe exceptions for medical flights only. There is no reason for their existence, there is no human right that says “well humans must be able to own their own airplane!”

Ban super yachts, there is no reason why they should exist beyond showing off what an abusive hoarding asshole the owner is.

Make cities for humans, not for cars. That doesn’t mean ban cars outright but do make cities like in the Netherlands and more. Cars should be kept out of cities asuch as possible. Pedestrians and bicycles first (and in many places, only) and replace the vast majority of cars with electrified public transport. Make neighborhoods mixed buildings with homes, stores and bars and restaurants. All industrial stuff in industrial parks.

This will change the urban design of cities. You’ll get many more smaller stores all around, people don’t need a car to go yo Walmart, they walk to their neighborhood store. This will make all countries as nice as “oh my god the Netherlands is so nice, it’s so nice with the small streets and the bicycle allowing you to go everywhere”. It’ll also lower CO2 by a shit load. In the Netherlands, a huge amount of the population doesn’t have a car because they don’t want a car. It’s expensive and they no longer actually NEED one. Cars that are left should all be electrified.

Tax the rich, and not just a little bit. The 1% and 0.1% are extreme polluters and take and waste beyond anything that can be construed as normal. There is no inherent human right to be a billionaire. Tax the rich and prohibit anyone from having a networth over 10 million dollars (example figure, but something around that) by taxation. Any income after you reach that is 100 % taxed. Of course there will be tax brackets, starting at zero for the poorest, going up and up to that 100%.

Limit company sizes to 1 billion dollars networth and or 1000 employees. After that billion, revenue taxes go to 100% equally. No company should be too big. If the company is worth that, btw, you’d need loads of shareholders as each individual can only have a networth of 10 million, remember?

Teach our children that being super rich is something shameful. You’ve been abusive, you’ve been hoarding, it’s abusive and you should be ashamed, and (as said above) prohibited

Require all product producers that all their products are recyclable, repairable, built with sustainable materials from sustainable sources. If it’s not sustainable, don’t sell it.

Same for packaging, bit also require all packaging to have only one packaging, not twenty, and all packaging material must be paper

Require stores to also sell used versions of their products. This requires that they also buy used products from their customers. This of course doesnt apply to food and such :)

Prohibit stores from dumping unsold items. If something doesn’t sell, they can give it to the government for distribution

Ban plastics where possible. No plastic in packaging, for example. No plastic bottles, go back to glass. Standardize certain bottle sizes and colors for easier reuse.

Teach kids hat he basics of Capitalism is okay, but that it can become an evil beast if not controlled well. Consumerism is not okay, you don’t need half the crap people have in their homes these days

With that said, prohibited ALL advertising. If I’d have to see another single lie from a company about how their product really is the best, it’d be too much

Stop inheritance. You should be able to inherit some memorabilia from your loved ones, not that castle they owned

Make all enormous homes with 50 rooms into nice spa hotels. Nobody has the right to have a home that is crazily oversized.

Tax meat heavily. It’s still okay (for now) as it’s such a staple of everyone’s diets, but seriously, you don’t need a two pound steak. Limit the amount of meat allowed in single servings. Push for laboratory meat.

Require farms to have all livestock to be able to roam free, have good food, etc.

Those are a few rules to staet with a generally healthier and better world for everyone. I’m sure some rules are incomplete, need more detail, need exceptions or slight modifications, but the basics are there.

Nothing not what we have today HAS to be the way it is, it is the way it is because we all allow it. Changing economic systems is usually disastrous, so let’s keep capitalism, it’s the best system to make capital. But with these basic limits, nobody gets too rich. The government gets loads of money that it can use for social systems like free healthcare, free education, free food and housing, universal basic income, etc.

Sounds pretty neat in my head, I’ll start refining and adding to this list.

Yeet billionaires into space is a decent start.

Genuinely there needs to be a fee that companies must pay for the pollution they create, with it written into law that they can’t palm the cost off on their customers.

We need to move shipping away from the ‘barely more refined than crude oil’ fuels they use

We need to ensure protection of the oceans by making it so that outflowing waste from industry never reaches the watercourse in the first place.

Single use plastics need to be removed from the supply chain (alternatively changed at the production level so they’re made from plant cellulose or a material that doesn’t break down into PFOAS or microplastics)

We also need to block petrochemical companies from lobbying or interfering with politics, and prevent them from funding smear campaigns against renewable energy sources

Compost the rich

Eliminate cattle agriculture. No more growing alfalfa in the desert.

Carbon capture in the form of mass re-forestation.

Zoning out single-family homes.

Increased taxes on rural residents. Decreased taxes in urban areas.

Nurembergesque trials for oil company executives.

Refocusing the Department of Homeland Security on fighting forest fires exclusively. ICE agents will be sent to forest fires all over the globe and tasks with putting them out or die in the attempt.

Every citizen gets 4 flight credits a year. 1 credit needed per flight. These roll over if you don’t ude them.

Removal of Trump supporter’s reproductive organs for population management

Proviso of this is that, globally, politicians grow a spine, along with a sense of morality, and long term planning. It would also require them to deal with the money hoarding issues with the hyper rich.

• The first step is a massive push for renewables. They should be representing 200-500% of grid demand regularly. If nuclear can get up to speed and be part of this, great, but we can’t wait on it.

• That excess power should be soaked up by large scale, portable, energy storage. Green hydrogen is the current best option, but synthetic fossil fuels could also take up the slack. Depending on the area, desalination could also be combined into this.

• We seriously decarbonise the transport networks. For vans and smaller, electric vehicles win. BYD have demonstrated that low cost electric cars are viable. For larger vehicles, where electric becomes inefficient, hydrogen is viable. This is where a lot of the excess hydrogen will be going.

• Carbon credits with teeth. Rather than relying on a planned economy mindset, we can make capitalism work for us. We need a global fixed carbon emission limit. This limit should trend towards net zero on a preset timetable. Credits are bid on, akin to stock market trades. Companies must have credits by the end of the year/period. The fine for not having credits should be a multiple of the closing credits price (10x?). The fine for falsification should be multiples of that, erring towards corporate execution levels.

This will force easy savings out of the market quickly. It will then force compulsory emitters to factor in Carbon costs.

• Combined with the carbon credits will be negative credits. If a group takes a ton of CO² out of the air, long term, they gain a new credit. They can sell this to emitters. This will provide the CO² emissions industry requires, while meeting net zero.

An example of this might be large scale bio capture on the open ocean. Grow seaweed etc on pontoons, and turn it into a solid. This can then be locked up (old coal mines?) taking carbon out permanently.

• Geo engineering. There are multiple methods of reducing incident sunlight on the earth. Everything from powders in the upper atmosphere, to mylar solar shades at the Lagrange point. They will be short term fixes, but will buy us time.

None of these require massive reductions in quality of life. They do require changes in how we do things. It’s also worth noting that I’ve not covered the numerous problems to be solved e.g. power grid upgrades to account for renewables. None of these should be insurmountable however, just engineering, or political/policing challenges.

An no, I’ve no fucking idea how to get politicians to grow a spine and do what’s required for our long term comfort/survival. Fixing the planet? That’s just a (really big) engineering problem. Fixing human nature? …Fuck knows.

CO2 seems to be the main problem, so why don’t we just burn it. Powerstations powered by burning CO2 would be good for the atmosphere while providing heat and power for communities. And CO2 is abundant so it should be cheap, too!

No plastics but natural materials, wood, leather stuff like that Renewable energies, reduce consumption, public transport everywhere instead of cars. Higher density of living together.

PUNISH THE COMPANYS! NO PRIVAT JETS OR IN LAND FLYING!

Go vegan/vegitarian. Not just for the enviorment but personal health! And when meat then not mass produced meat. Butcherm if you cant afford it then maybe dont. Its not neccissary

companies and countries have largely abandoned it already, the most polluting ones dint do anything to reduce it at all. consumers are the smaller emitters of it.

these companies have actively funded groups to dissuade “carbon usage” so they dont have to reduce thier own emissions.

If they won’t shut down their CO²-spewing factories and plants, then we will have to.

I’m vegan, have no intention of ever buying a car and plan on never having children. That’s probably as much individual action as anyone can ask for. Anything after that is up to corporations and governments, so we should make sure they are incentivized to do the right thing 👍

Engineer a virus to send back in time to slow down CO2 emissions

wait a minute…

solutions that dont disrupt the 99%'s way of life

This is not possible. Barring some miracle technologies being developed, we would have to radically change our standards of living and give up our modern convenient lives to make meaningful changes.

Stop burning fossil fuels. There is no way that doesn’t include that.