Reducing Emissions
The challenge is to freeze emissions at their current level.
In the second part of David Attenborough's investigation titled "Climate Chaos," he offers the following measures to achieve this challenge:
Household Solutions
Turning heating down by a few degrees
Turning off televisions and similar equipment instead of leaving them in 'standby'
Composting vegetable waste
Buying locally grown food to save on transporting it
Using energy-efficient lighting
Insulating homes properly
Using a gas cooker instead of an electric one
Outside House Solutions
Driving more fuel-efficient cars
Using more public transportation
Tripling the world's nuclear power
Scaling up renewable energy, such as solar and wind power
Pumping back emissions to below the sea bed
According to Attenborough, people are starting to notice that their climate is changing, and we all have to do something to do in order to stop it. He outlines the dreadful and deadly outcome of climate change if we do nothing. For instance the melting of the Greenland ice cap would cause the sea to flood much of south-east Britain and central London. If the sea level rose 5-meters, most of Florida and turn Miami into another but true Atlantis. Another further 5-meter rise would completely cover Bangladesh. "Worldwide, 150 million people could be displaced within 50 years."
"In the past, we didn't understand the effect of our actions. Unknowingly, we sowed the wind and now, literally, we are reaping the whirlwind. But we no longer have that excuse: now we do recognise the consequences of our behaviour. Now surely, we must act to reform it: individually and collectively; nationally and internationally — or we doom future generations to catastrophe." – David Attenborough, in closing.
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