The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet

 It's easy to despair. Too easy.
 The future hasn’t already been decided.  The future is as uncertain as it’s ever been. Knowing this, there is still a chance to seize the best-case scenario rather than surrender to the worst. Taking action is the best way to live in conditions of crisis and disruption. 

 Although individual choices and actions are important, experts say people need to unite if the scale of this challenge is to be met, making the political space for politicians and big businesses to make the necessary changes.

The single most important thing people can do is come together to form movements – or join existing groups – that can push for changes big enough to matter, from city-wide renewable energy programs to large-scale divestment from fossil fuels.

And to that point we are introducing The Green Elephant’s Comprehensive Eco-Solutions Database: “A CALL TO ACT” where you will discover  hundreds of eco-action activities that cover every aspect of your life — home, family, career, shopping, leisure time, investing, and the other parts of our lives that will allow you to mobilize.

A Call to Act Eco-Guide

1. Meet people whose profession was destroying the planet that had a change of heart. Not only did they quit what they were doing, but became advocates for what they had been working against. Meet a rancher, logger, fisherman, and author who experienced an about-face and made positive contributions to the health of the planet.

2. Unquestionably renewables are better for the environment than fossil-fueled power plants. However, there are a few things about alternative energy sources that deserve a closer look. Is there an even better option than renewables? Listen in and see what you think.

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In this, the third podcast in a three-part series, we start buy discussing the fundamental difference between Republican and Democrat voters. 

Next, a deep dive on how Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 — by not winning the popular vote, and how he could easily do it again.

Then, insights on how the nation has to prepare itself on election day, November 5th and the following days, to be thrown into turmoil if Trump is not elected. This includes threats of violence against election officials and poll workers — just doing their job. It will be something that none of us have ever experienced before. 

Finally, the good news. The democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, and her chosen running mate Tim Walz, both have stellar environmental records which bodes well for the promise of essential American leadership in this Mother-of-all-Fights. 

And the best part: the critical role you can play in ensuring that we elect climate heroes dedicated to setting ambitious goals to reduce climate pollution.

A Call to Act: The World's most Comprehensive Database of Eco-Solutions

Vote for Earth Now: Getting the Green Vote Out 

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In this second of three episodes in series, we are delving into what an unnatural force of nature, Donald Trump will be.  Worse than any fire, flood, or hurricane, for the future of our planetary systems, and also on human institutions that will have to deal with the magnitude of the consequences of his policies. 

That’s a strong statement, but as evidenced in this episode: first we present Donald Trump’s first, and hopefully only administration. Then we share the specific written plan that blatantly documents, in writing, how his new administration will upend everything green, including back-pedaling on most of our climate and ecological progress forged over decades. 

And finally, probably Trump’s most lasting and deadly legacy — the “Trump Effect.” The toxic impact he had — and is having on US states and on other countries globally, including many of our staunchest allies in the global climate fight.

Tis' frightful.

 It's all about the vote — which will be challenging enough. Click on the "Vote for Earth Now" link below to help push your own 'lefty' agenda.

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Vote for Earth Now: Getting the Green Vote Out

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This is the first of three episodes about how Donald Trump, if elected, will strangle Climate and Environmentalism in it’s crib. 

In this episode:

Trump and his party have a new climate-strategy — acknowledging that change is happening, but refusing to actually do anything to stop it.

Also, considering how shokingly unfit Donald Trump is for leading the country — what is it about him that allowed him to come this far?

Next, we answer the perplexing question: Why do millions of people support and vote for him?

Finally, we explore how politics have become the new religion in America.

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Vote for Earth Now: Getting the Green Vote Out

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Hundreds of climate scientists were asked this simple question: “What do you feel about climate change.”
The result was poignant, angry, bewildered, and in some cases hopeful letters from climate scientists that most importantly, spell out what we need to do to avoid the calamity that is barreling rapidly toward us.
Climate change is a complex and intimidating threat. You can't see it when you look out your bedroom window. Its impacts are often not immediately noticeable, nor are the benefits of acting against it.
Luckily there are a large group of passionate individuals who have dedicated their lives to studying climate change. These people write complex research papers, unpacking every aspect of climate change, analysing it thoroughly and clinically. 
They understand the numbers, the facts and the figures. They know what is causing it, what the impacts will be and how we can minimise these impacts.
But they're not clinical: distant and unemotional. These scientists are mothers, fathers, grandparents, daughters. They are real people. And they're concerned.
Listen to the end where we share the only historically demonstrated, scientifically proven, socially supported method of turning the battleship of climate and ecological destruction around. And the best part? It involves you.

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This year elections are taking place across the globe covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year on record as the climate crisis intensifies.
Around the world, nations are choosing to prioritize economic growth and national interest over climate policy.
There are worrying signs of a green backlash - or green lash - are rising, as citizens and businesses start feeling the costs of the energy transition.
Globally, voters are anxious about the cost of living, while green regulations are starting to affect the stuff of daily life — what cars people buy and how they heat their homes.
Do you choose a heat pump in your house? What car are you going to drive? These are emotional things to people.
Climate isn’t a core issue for most voters the way the economy and security are. But the flag-waving right has made climate policy another culture-wars flash point — an example in their eyes of costly, intrusive overreach that compromises personal choice and national sovereignty.
Much of the right believes that the bigger threat "is not climate change; it’s the actions taken by governments to decarbonize economies.
This is not good news —We are literally in a fight for Heaven and Earth.
Tune in and listen to the end where we give you, not only some much need hope, but your role in this hot mess.
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The Climate End-Game is when global temperatures exceed 3°+ Celsius over this next century and beyond.
If that were to occur, there could be multiple tipping points sparking each other at the same time, jacking the scorching heat even higher.
Scientists say the world needs to think about a worst-case climate senerio. A team of international researchers says we need to start preparing for the possibility of a "climate endgame" as extreme weather events keep ravaging the planet.
They tell us the risk that global warming could lead to not only collapse of civilization, but to human extinction is dangerously under-explored.
With our overheated planet, we have had so many apocalyptic warnings that it has spawned a whole industry of books (Cli-Fi), movies, and video-games — a kind of disaster voyeurism.
At the moment, the chances of going over 4°C. are small, but this is our first climate catastrophe party that we have thrown, so it’s all speculation.
We need to be realistic about the four horsemen of the Climate Endgame: famine, extreme weather, conflict, and infectious diseases. The ultimate purpose of this area of study would be about better understanding, which prevents the worst case scenario and being prepared for it.
We have already baked billion of tons of carbon into our oceans and atmosphere, so no matter what preventative actions we take, the temperatures and the chaos will plague us for the next century.
Of course, we all know the solution: we must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade, period. If we fail, then we risk crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of humanity’s control.
In the episode we also explore concepts of gloom and doom vs. giving the public the facts of our dire situation so they can be part of the solution.
While that’s all very nice, keep in mind that we have the technology of the gods and the politics of narcissistic children. Will we meet the challenge, or amuse ourselves to annihilation?
At the end of this episode, we share a historically proven, scientifically supported, researched verified method of solving the climate monster we have unleashed. In fact, it may be the only hope we have.

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Right at the moment when climate impacts are dramatically manifesting themselves, concern from global citizens is shrinking. 
We have lost that loving feeling toward the living world. We have lost any sense of urgency. 
As temperature rise, climate change remains a low priority for most individuals. 
Polling data shows that, concerning the greatest threat to human civilization and life on earth as we know it, more and more feel that, “It is not a very serious threat.”
This is not good news. 
When it comes to measures aimed at transitioning the country toward renewable energy, interviewees stressed the importance of respecting individual freedoms – and individual choice – in any energy transition. This theme was underscored by criticism of policies like ending the production of new gas-powered vehicles.
Worse than that, this new malaise is allowing new laws to be passed attacking climate activist. 
That is really not good news. 
Where the beneficial news lies are at the end of this podcast, where our best hope for any real climate action can be in the hands a few dedicated, connected individuals forming climate advocacy communities. This is not hippy-dippy, pie-in-the-sky weirdness. It is fact-based, scientifically-evidenced, historically- proven methods, processes, and techniques that have, and will work to curb the insanity.
This will not be easy. In fact, it will be the greatest challenge humanity has collectively faced. 
We need to recognize that we are running out of time to implement clean-energy solutions to protect the future of our planet.
We need to recognize that we cannot work within the current political reality. We need to change it through direct action. 
We need to recognize that we need consistent, mass-turnout, nonviolent disruption to stop business as usual and compel politicians to act.
It’s the only hope we have — but at least we have reason to hope. 

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