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Brighter Climate Futures: A Global Energy, Climate & Ecosystem Transformation

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Berkeley, California : Regent Press Printers & Publishers, 2020
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338p. ; 23cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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As the world deals with Climate Change it has become clear that the time for delays is over and we need to come up with a complete time bound plan that is adequate in preventing excessive temperature rise and then to implement it! That is what this book offers. It describes a detailed plan that will help our Earth transform to one that has plenty of renewable energy, improves the living conditions of people, and is beautiful and healthy. 

There is no question of doing without or even going backwards. The Book shows that there can be plenty of renewable energy for our expanding global energy needs while we are getting rid of fossil fuels and reducing our carbon emissions from them to zero by 2050 in order to keep global average temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius (1.5C). This is the temperature rise which the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned us we must not exceed in order to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. 

Since Global Warming is a GLOBAL issue, the book presents a Global Energy Plan that is quantitatively adequate and timebound, in order to achieve that by the year 2050. It also presents detailed and quantitative energy, climate and ecosystem plans for the US, California, China, India, the European Union and general plans for other categories of nations. The variability of renewable energy (especially Solar) is overcome by showing that this energy can be stored in large quantities. The plans are technically feasible (meaning that they can be applied practically) and are economically viable (meaning that they are within the financial capacity of global society).  While most of the plan can be implemented by current technical capabilities, the book shows that there is much scope for technical, social, business and political innovations that will increase our capabilities, which we are fully capable of. 

So, leave gloom and doom behind. For the world and for each of the nations for which plans are presented, the book describes the worsening conditions that are hurting these nations in a big way (from worsening natural disasters, to bad pollutions, worsening health, and the worsening conditions for agriculture, water shortages and heat waves), and why these nations CANNOT AFFORD to delay implementation of climate change solutions of the type described in the book. 

The US Green New Deal (GND) is a very good set of aspirations that aims at what the US should do to help with its share of solving the climate crisis, while at the same time improving the lives of people. The book describes how its plan will implement the mobilization goals described in the Green New Deal. It then goes on to describe a Global Green New Deal, and what this will mean for the world. Most importantly, the book also includes a global plan for strengthening and empowering a United Nations based global organization to plan, organize, fund, coordinate and implement the global plan.



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Introduction-Upping the Ambition 1. The Status of Climate Change & Setting the Goals 2. The Global Energy & Climate PLAN 3. Massive Carbon Sinks - Forests & Coastal Ecosystems 4. Advanced Disaster Management for Climate Change 5. Adapting to the Consequence of Climate Change & a Regenerative Agriculture 6. National Energy, Climate and Ecosystem Plans for the US and California, including the Green New Deal 7. National Energy, Climate & Ecosystem Plans for Other Major Emitter Nations - China, India and the European Union 8. Organizing Globally - An Implementation PLAN that will be Adequate, Timely & And Effective 9. Investments We Need & Ways of Financing Them 10. Overcoming the Obstacles - Climate Deniers & Fossil Fuel Financial and Political Interests 11. Global PLAN for Reducing Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions 12. Jobs & Economy Aspects of the PLAN - including Just Transition and Energy Democracy 13. What the Transformed World Will Look Like After the Plan