My peace podcast with author Peter Fiekowsky shows how “Climate restoration” is possible. His book is uplifting and hopeful!! As soon as it arrived, I started reading and only put it down to have this podcast. Climate Restoration: points out that even though we seem to be moving toward the UN climate goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, it is not enough! It would still leave CO2 levels in the air more than 50% higher than humans have ever survived in, long-term.
But wait! Peter and his book Climate Restoration have a positive message:
- The good news is that we can actually reduce the carbon dioxide levels to a point where they were 100 years ago. That is what climate restoration means and what is needed.
- It gives three tracks and five scientifically proven methods for restoring carbon already in the air back into the earth.
- It is reader-friendly, understandable, and data-based.
The “three tracks” we need to pursue are:
- Restore CO2 to levels humans have survived in for eons — below 300 ppm — by 2050. This requires turning back the clock on CO2 to 1920 levels, using the mechanisms that nature used to remove CO2 before ice ages.
- Restore methane to lower levels and create the capacity to oxidize a potentially horrific methane burst, should it happen again.
- Restore a sustainable population. Estimates are that the earth now supports 4 to 5 times as many people as are sustainable. We can get back to a sustainable level (last seen in 1920) by 2100, just by letting birth rates fall to what they are in Italy — 1.3 to 1.5 children per woman.
Pretty amazing ideas, so please watch this podcast with a group and have a conversation and to learn more visit: PeterFiekowsky.com
