kc golden climate solutions 02.19.14 roll on: the hydro legacy and the clean energy future
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KC Golden Climate Solutions02.19.14
Roll On: the hydro legacyand the clean energy future
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What if it were an emergency?
“Co-benefits” my arse
What would Winnie say?
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat”
At stake: EverythingCurrent path: “is incompatible with organized global community, is likely to be beyond ‘adaptation’, is devastating to the majority of ecosystems & has a high probability of not being stable (i.e. 4°C [7F] would be an interim temp. on the way to a much higher equilibrium)”
- Kevin Anderson, Director , Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
“Ouch” - KC Golden, Policy Director, Climate Solutions
“Dad, dude, do you have any idea how much that would suck?”
- Jonah Golden
Sea-level rise: up to $100 trillion a year
Snowpack down 56-70%
The truth is not somewhere in the middle
Kids, you’ve tried your best and you’ve failed miserably.
The lesson is you should never, ever try
DenialConfusionInaction
“I don’t think this is a big issue, because nobody’s doing anything about it.”
Change a bulb. Change the world.
WHAT TO DO? Scale and hope WHAT TO DO? Scale and hope
“Seattle is blessed with hydropower”
Unh uh.We built that.
Hmm…Who do we know who could think really big?
Ending the fossil fuel age.Now’s the time. Here’s good.
“Renewable” not “alternative” Coal-free. Soon.“2 energy systems” Less oil, more prosperity, democracy
Possible?
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Possible?If it were
absolutely necessary……do you really doubt
that it would be POSSIBLE???
“The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn’t use their imaginations to think of the impossible.”