Climate Solutions

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Climate Solutions For a new, sustainable
prosperity
Global Warming? BRING IT ON!
Climate Solutions For a new, sustainable
prosperity
PNAIS 05.15.09 K.C. Golden Policy
Director Climate Solutions
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What are adults for, anyway?
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Denial Confusion
I dont think this is a big issue, because
nobodys doing anything about it.

We can break the circle with
Practical, economical solutions Results-oriented
climate policy
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From denial to..?
Solutions!
Resignation
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Hope is a stance, not a calculation -
Frances Moore Lappe
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Scale and hope Small steps help us engage, but
we need to be part of something big
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Hope is a stance, but for those of us who need
some calculation.
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Wasting less is wedge 1 and 2 and 3

1. Get the tons
2. A economics, negligible environmental impact
3. We can all do it and we can all benefit

Get your wedge on!
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Efficiency and Conservation
Moral equivalent of war? OK .but sex is good
too
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http//www.youtube.com/watch?v18Bpy4EvivI
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Sex is even better with good economics
Source McKinsey Co.
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Policy matters US fuel economy standards are
worlds weakest automakers on the ropes
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Whats our role globally? UNFCCC The preamble

• All countries need to participate ..in
  accordance with their common but differentiated
  responsibilities and respective capabilities

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What you can do now

• Get it Talk about it! A defining challenge for
  science, math, culture, world affairs.
• Do it Be the solution!
• Engage students as engineers of a brighter
  future. Apply
• Problem-solving and higher-order thinking
• Collaboration
• Community engagement, collective choice

Hearing and Rally May 21!
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Climate Solutions For a new, sustainable
prosperity
PNAIS 05.15.09 K.C. Golden Policy
Director Climate Solutions