So many people seem depressed over climate change that I felt compelled to write this. The issue of climate change is urgent. If you don't believe that, consider the IPCC report: We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN. The authors of the IPCC admit that their report is "very conservative". It has not taken into account feedback mechanisms and tipping points. For example, Greenland unraveling rapidly as feedback loops bring the ice sheet closer to the tipping point. Which includes: “"Yahoo News, reports that “carbon dioxide and methane emissions from thawing soils are “accelerating climate change about 12 to 15 percent at the moment,” and said past IPCC reports that left out the feedback “were way more optimistic than they should have been.” " Also, recently, there is a heat wave in Siberia: Siberians roast under temperatures as high as 87.8 F as second heat wave melts the Arctic. As the permafrost melts the thawing soil gives off carbon dioxide and methane making global warming worse. Despite the additional CO2 plants will not do well world wide due to a loss of habitat. As for other species extinction: Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, leading scientist warns.
Depressed Yet? Your not the only one, but if we predict the worst or give in to despair we won't get anything done. No matter how bad it gets I for one do not see an end to technological man. Let's hope it doesn't get that bad. Here are two articles dealing with the depression climate change can cause: "Climate Change Isn’t Just Frying the Planet—It’s Fraying Our Nerves" and I have felt hopelessness over climate change. Here is how we move past the immense grief
Solutions
An old-new way to build a car, the Pulse Auto-cycle uses a motorcycle engine, tandem seating (one behind the driver), and jet like aerodynamics to get great gas mileage, depending on the engine. Four wheels are in a diamond pattern. About 350 Pulses were built in the 1980s. It’s a collectors item, but it’s main contribution to climate change is the potential of the body shape to change the way we commute. Will someone fit one with electric power? I hope so.
Electric cars and hydrogen powered transport are also making headway. For example: London to have world-first hydrogen-powered doubledecker buses. These buses are awesome, “requiring only one five-minute refill a day” and giving off water as exhaust. They may be the harbinger of future transport.
Electric cars are available with the cheapest ones starting at about 35K. Wind power has become less and less expensive and new “wonder materials” such as graphene and borophene have been invented. So the engineers and materials scientists continue to do their job. There is plenty of reason for hope for the future. It’s now up to us and the politicians. Not everyone is waiting for Trump to leave the scene.
We have the Green New Deal and from Huffington Post 5-15-19: Democrats Flesh Out Green New Deal With Bill To End Sales Of Gas-Burning Cars By 2040.
Washington state has apparently endured forest fires and smoke: see Climate Solutions, so climate change is taken very seriously there. Their governor is dedicated to making Washington a 100% clean state. He is running for President and has certainly gotten a lot of attention here: Inslee's Bold Plan to Tackle Climate Change is Amazing!
So please don’t give up hope.