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:

1. 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.
2. It gives three tracks and five scientifically proven methods for restoring carbon already in the air back into the earth.
3. It is reader-friendly, understandable, and data-based.

 

The “three tracks” we need to pursue are:

 

1. 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.
2. Restore methane to lower levels and create the capacity to oxidize a potentially horrific methane burst, should it happen again.
3. 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