It's easy to feel uninspired by the lack of progress society has made in the last decade. Thinking pragmatically though, here is a few promising energy technologies which might help with decarbonization in the next 10 years.
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Ultimately what I've seen has been mostly emotional reactions due to COVID19. People make real changes not because of logic but because of their feelings.
The other day, a pod of orca whales was sighted extremely close to the Vancouver downtown core (source). It's obviously super anecdotal and not the kind of evidence you can base real models upon, but these are the kind of sentiments that really get through to people.
Continuing to highlight things like that will hopefully stick around in the minds of society for the long term. This is why I'm optimistic that something good can come from all of this
Are we at the point now where we need to shift the global narrative more towards wide scale adaptation (coping with the effects of climate change) as opposed to focusing primarily on mitigating the causes?
It would obviously be great to do both, but events like the Australian bushfires are starting to highlight how unequipped we might be on the adaptation side.
What is the right balance?
It's easy to feel uninspired by the lack of progress society has made in the last decade. Thinking pragmatically though, here is a few promising energy technologies which might help with decarbonization in the next 10 years.
Summarized here for convenience:
Loads of small scale solar apparatuses (apparatum? apparati?) are making their way to places that are currently not electrified! Here is one solar home kit
The cool thing is the financial model of pay-as-you-go has enabled people who otherwise might not be able to afford a switch away from dirty and toxic kerosene!