Regenerating Life Film Premiere Boston Panel

[@forgetful3360]

With respect, more time needs to be spent on audio quality before posting. Also we in KZbin land, hungry for knowledge, are not captive audience members. Editing is a useful tool. For my part, I’m here to listen to Anastassia Makarieva.

[@phoenixfunctions]

Dichotomies such as carbon dioxide or ecosystems is an unreliable view of what we need to do to mitigate or even resolve climate change. We can both restore pre-industrial CO2 levels AND the ecosystems of the world. It is certain that if we don't make urgent inroads into mitigating climate related impacts on populations and food security we will have even further devastation to the ecosystem. And so all of this needs to be represented in a transformation of the economic system and that is also a very complex issue if we want to move the economy so that it works for the mass of the 8 billion people.

[@forgetful3360]

Stop using ff tomorrow and start the large scale drawdown of atmospheric co2 the day after, it will take centuries to achieve pre industrial co2 levels. The atmosphere and the oceans maintain a co2 equilibrium. The oceans which have absorbed the bulk of 'additional' co2 over the past centuries will simply replace 99.999999 per cent of the co2 we somehow remove from the atmosphere. Plenty of good reasons to end ff use, but stabilizing the climate is not one (although some benefit may accrue many, many generations down the road). We have to act to stabilize and cool the climate. Restoring the water cycle is key and the first steps are A) preserving the remaining functional forests, and B) restoring the soil carbon sponge.

[@az55544]

It's too bad that Didi allowed Tom to go off for so long without redirection. He was a complete failure to the promise of keeping things focused on solutions and not spiraling into doom. We all know there's doom. It's time to move on.