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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who else has read The Ministry for the Future? Now when I hear reports about heat waves in India, it's terrifying.[/quote]

I was in India during the heatwave in March/April.  Understand that it was not even the height of summer.  Normal life came to a standstill in the middle of the day. Trees, plants and crops wilted. It was the kind of oppressive heat that prevented most of us from leaving the house.  Animals and birds were dying.  Immense water scarcity coupled with huge amounts of mosquitos. Rancid and putrid smells from many open sewage drains.  It was hell. It was horrifying. Temperatures were looming at 110 degree Fahrenheit.  Yesterday, when DC was at 90 degrees, I thought it was a normal weather because it was bearable.  Otherwise, the air at 105 - 110 degrees felt so hot that it hurts your lungs to breathe it in.

I feel all of us need to plant more trees around our homes. Get rid of lawns. Dig some trenches to do rain harvesting on your property and recharge the ground level of water.  Stop using pesticide, weed killers and fertilizers. Plant clovers to fix nitrogen in the lawn. Compost your kitchen waste.[/quote]

On an individual level, I do everything you state above.  My yard is full of trees and no pesticides or insecticides and I compost food waste.  I even have solar panels and our next car will be electric.

Unfortunately this is a situation where individual action really does not matter.  I still live in a suburban house and drive everywhere because I couldn’t afford something else for my family and deliberate policy decisions created the modern suburb.  Governments have to take drastic action to move the needle here.[/quote]
Yes, it’s going to have to be governmental, but until we get rid of the GOP and their constant hampering of progress, it’s going to be down to the individual.

Native perennials are even better than trees at sequestering carbon. Many people can turn over at least some turf to native perennials and in return start sequestering carbon (and creating habitat for birds and pollinators, since in addition to global warming we’re also killing all our birds and beneficial insects). [/quote]

All we have to do is get rid of the GOP, lower our standard of living, and global warming will slow?  [b]We can ignore other large carbon polluters like India and China?[/b]  [/quote]\
No, we can't ignore them, but we are doing nothing to help them.
"The financial aid which rich countries promised yet failed to deliver as part of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 was supposed to help developing countries dump coal for cleaner sources of energy. And while the world berated India and China for weakening the Glasgow Climate Pact’s coal resolution, few questioned the fossil fuel projects being floated in developed nations, like the UK’s Cambo oilfield and the Line 3 oil pipeline between Canada and the US.:

It is al worth considering that:

"India and China are undoubtedly both major emitters, with China responsible for 28 per cent of carbon emissions and India 7 per cent, ranking them first and third in the world.

But as the per capita analysis shows, they slip down the rankings when you account for their huge populations. Between them, China and India are home to more than a third of the planet’s people -36 per cent in total."[/quote]

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