Saving the World: Three Problems at a Time
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Saving the World: Three Problems at a Time
IntroductionWhen I was 18 I left home to go and live with my Grandfather. My Grandfather, who was born towards the end of the 19th Century was 92 and was starting not to be able to manage his house by himself.
As I began the process of familiarising myself with his home, I walked around opening the draws and cupboards. I found neatly folded Christmas wrapping paper, collections of string, paper clips and glass jars, all of which had been used at one point and had been carefully put aside for reuse.
As a person who made the decision to be an environmentalist when I was 12, during an era of rampant consumerism, I was shocked as to find that the world we were trying to create, one of recycling and minimal consumption, was not something that was new, but was in fact how people had lived before, and my Grandfather was a living example of this.
At the time I believed that people had lived sustainably within living memory but we now know that even the levels of greenhouse that were in the atmosphere at the time of my Grandfathers childhood were most likey high enough to trigger a run away climate event and in fact the world he lived in wasn't sustainable.
However seeing how my grandfather lived was a clear example that in a relatively short time, values held by a society could change dramatically. This provides hope for us living today because it means humans are capable of large scale change around their belief and values, which is exactly what we need to achieve if we are to save our future.
“Saving the World Three problems at A Time” section of the Target 300 website is my first attempt to explore how we might achieve such a change in value, belief and actions by developing a series of potential solutions to the issue of climate change.
The solutions presented range from broad systemic changes to the more detailed, while geographic focus varies from the global, national and state scales to a plan for a country town's light rail system. Most importantly the solutions developed will seek simultaneously tackle other environmental and social problems, in particular the peak of word oil production and the the global economic down turn.
Over time these pages will be updated, refined and detail added.
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