[MCN] No place like home for an energy revolution, but how many will accept the need for sacrifice of comfort and convenience?

[Lance Olsen]

“It’s time that everyone, from the humble homeowner to the highest levels of business and government, rethink their relationship with energy and take action. 

"Relying on renewables alone won’t be enough.”

<<https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikehughes1/2019/08/02/climate-change-18-months-to-save-the-world/#166763c749bd>>

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Bloomberg March 19, 2019
Climate Challenge Will Be Harder Than It Seems, JPMorgan Executive Warns
CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE 
<<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/climate-challenge-harder-than-it-seems-jpmorgan-executive-warns <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/climate-challenge-harder-than-it-seems-jpmorgan-executive-warns>>>

The world isn’t cutting carbon emissions anywhere near quickly enough, a senior executive at J.P. Morgan Asset Management <https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/0215978D:US> told clients this week -- and changing that will require far harder choices than most people realize.

The message to investors, Cembalest said, is not that cutting emissions is hopeless. Rather, it’s that the U.S. and other countries will need to accept much more sweeping – and likely politically unpopular -- changes to reach that goal.

“Reduced consumption is going to have to be a part of the equation,” Cembalest said.

“I think more sacrifices are going to be needed than people still understand.”

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During recent decades, the big environmental orgs wearied of telling their followers to reduce, reuse, and recycle. They came to see that global problems like climate change require systemic solutions that, in turn, require massive investment and governmental planning and oversight.

But the reality is, we need both high-level systemic change and widespread individual behavior change. That’s one of the lessons of the coronavirus pandemic: “flattening the curve” demands both central planning and leadership, and individual sacrifice.

Richard Heinberg

<<https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-04-27/review-planet-of-the-humans/ <https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-04-27/review-planet-of-the-humans/>>>
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According to Heinberg, “the only realistic way to make the transition in industrial countries like the US is to begin reducing overall energy usage substantially [solar-/wind-powered or otherwise], eventually running the economy on a quarter, a fifth, or maybe even a tenth of current energy.” 

Read: Renewables? To an extent, yes; but far beyond: lifestyle change, and cutbacks—something that some environmentalists shy away from championing, admittedly for the tactical communication purpose of not losing their audience.

<<https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-07/planet-of-the-humans-reviewing-the-film-and-its-reviews/ <https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-07/planet-of-the-humans-reviewing-the-film-and-its-reviews/>>>
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Lifestyles - IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=413>
https://www.ipcc.ch › ipccreports › tar <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=413>
There are two reasons why lifestyles are an issue of climate policy. First, consumption patterns are an important factor in climate change since they have become ...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=61>
https://www.ipcc.ch › ipccreports › tar <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=61>
1.4 Global Sustainability and Climate Change Mitigation ... the unsustainable lifestyles and patterns of production and consumption, and explores a broad range ...

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Report - IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change <https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf>
https://report.ipcc.ch › pdf › sr15_spm_final <https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf>
Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden; the Ministry of Environment Natural . ...... lifestyles, including high demand for

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC <http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=48>
www.ipcc.ch › ipccreports › tar <http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=48>
Setting the Stage: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Contents ... 1.2.2 The Costs of Climate Change Mitigation ... 1.4.3.3 “Appropriate” Lifestyles

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC <http://ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=350>
ipcc.ch › ipccreports › tar <http://ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=350>
Today, as the scale of human impact on the environment increases, a range of ... that are exposed to changes in lifestyle and environmental and occupational ...

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=415>
https://www.ipcc.ch › ipccreports › tar <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=415>
Environmental education could be more effective than it has proved so far if it recognized that human behaviour hinges on lifestyle or self-awareness.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=441>
https://www.ipcc.ch › ipccreports › tar <https://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=441>
... among other factors, demographic changes, urbanization and industrial development, trade and transport demands, and lifestyle changes, the coastal zones ...

Topic 2: Future changes, risks and impacts — IPCC <https://ar5-syr.ipcc.ch/topic_futurechanges.php>
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Topic 2 assesses projections of future climate change and the resulting risks and ... population growth, lifestyle and behavioural changes, associated changes in ...

What the new report on climate change expects from you - CNN <https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/world/ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl/index.html>
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Oct 8, 2018 - A stark new report from the global scientific authority on climate ... But to do that, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says, would ... change their lifestyle and consumption patterns to more sustainable ...


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“Collective action works; we have proved that. But to change everything, we need everyone. 

"Each and every one of us must participate in the climate resistance movement.”

Greta Thunberg, youth climate strike leader in Sweden.
Luisa Neubauer, German climate activist.
Angela Valenzuela, Fridays for Future in Santiago, Chile.

<<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/29/why-we-strike-again>>

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