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Global Cooling - Strategies for Climate Protection (Hardcover, New)
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Global Cooling - Strategies for Climate Protection (Hardcover, New)
Series: Sustainable Energy Developments
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This book redefines climate protection measures and readjusts
climate protection targets in line with what is scientifically
necessary and economically feasible. The reader is provided with an
overview of recent developments and failings in, and successful
instruments for, fighting climate change and global warming.
Effective climate protection measures rest on two pillars: stopping
all greenhouse gas emissions and cleaning the atmosphere of spare
carbon. Both are possible, if the use of fossil fuels in the
energy, transport, construction and chemistry sectors is terminated
and the decision is made to consistently switch to a world economy
with zero emissions instead. Global Feed-in-Tariffs can provide
incentives for renewable energies as the German Feed-in-Tariff has
proven - a measure which has been copied by almost 70 nations
around the world. At the same time agricultural practices are
necessary to support an increase in biodiversity, e.g. re-greening
the desert, afforestation and organic agriculture and active
storage of atmospheric carbon emissions within agricultural soils.
This book demonstrates that investment in renewable energies and a
sustainable economy is not only a worthwhile cause but also has an
economic value. The book introduces new actors such as the
financial industry as an investor and political actor. If the
financial industry becomes a political actor and calls for a
necessary regulatory framework, more nations will follow -
accompanied by an economic benefit - which will create a class of
pioneer nations instead of the ever failing project of a global
climate agreement. The transformation of the world economy can be
accelerated through the right political measures. Active
legislative support is necessary, for example the implementation of
Feed-in-Tariffs for renewable energies, ending all subsidies for
fossil fuels and the internalization of external damage costs such
as nuclear waste management. Global warming does not have to be our
inescapable fate. If mankind pursues the right climate protection
strategies, the earth can be cooled down to an acceptable level in
a few decades.
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