- Executive Director, Project Drawdown drawdown.org
- Climate scientist, working on solutions
- Passionate about science, communication, and hope
- Minnesota based, Maine born
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Now, it's time to bring them to scale. Fast.
To know what works, what doesn't, and how to get moving on science-based climate solutions, visit the Drawdown Explorer.
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The Schmidts have funded many good efforts in science, the environment, and education. They're good people.
And I, for one, like seeing billionaires funding telescopes instead of toppling democracies…
But the Schmidts have also given millions and millions to ocean, climate, and environmental work, too.
They're some of the good folks out there, and I think it's great that they are supporting lots of good causes.
More of this please.
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* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
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I am considering producing a new series of short educational videos on climate solutions. It seems that the best advice is to go with:
- short, 1-3 minute videos that do well in Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.
- medium-length, 3-7-minute videos that do well on YouTube.
What do you suggest?
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This is what I shared with them. Just some words.
Maybe it helped a little? I honestly don't know.
(A) Push forward climate solutions — as cheaper, faster, and better ways to run the world. (That’s what we do at Project Drawdown)
(B) Pull back on fossil fuels — since they are more expensive, dangerous, dirty, and slow.
Doing A makes B easier.
To stop climate change, we need A+B.
Focusing only on deploying cheaper climate solutions is not the whole game, although it is *critical*.
And focusing only on curtailing fossil fuels is not the whole game, as it’s unlikely to work without good (cheaper, faster) replacements.
We need both.
AND work like hell to stop the expansion of fossil fuels, which are worse, slower, dirtier, more dangerous, etc…
I think we agree 😊
And I think this will work better than policies that constrain fossil fuels, which have big political hurdles…
We’re on the same page, but I encounter a lot more Doomers who think it’s “1.5 is gone, so we’re all gonna die” and that’s simply not true…
Maybe it’s best to say something like:
The warmer it gets, the damages grow — even faster.
The tipping points we might see are more specific to regional situations — e.g., the Amazon.
And the warmer the planet the gets, the more likely some might occur.
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A better title would be “Your Zodiac Sign is Total Bullshit, Period.”
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👉 Where do you see the biggest gap between knowledge and action today?
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