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Fa False Solutions to Climate Change

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Geoengineering

• Three proposed methods
• Solar Radiation Management
• Intended to reflect the sunlight back to space to reduce climate change
• Carbon Dioxide Removal
• Aims to suck carbon out of the atmosphere
• Earth Radiation Management
• Meant to offset the effects of climate change by allowing heat to escape into space
• Why it is a false solution
• Environmental Justice (EJ) communities are left out of the talk
• Favored by former climate change deniers, specifically in the Global North
• Disproportionate negative impact on the Global South and EJ communities
• Involves manipulating nature

Carbon Markets/Cap and Trade/Cap and Invest

• Intent of mass reduction of GHG emissions
• Why it is a false solution
• These programs increase air contamination in EJ communities
• Majority of emission sources are in EJ communities
• Continues our reliance on fossil fuels
• Those models have not worked in EJ communities
• The carbon caps are sometimes not in EJ communities
• Money derived from the capping carbon does not offset the impact from

higher amounts of carbon releases in EJ communities.

Industrial Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)

• Captures, transfers, stores carbon dioxide
• Why it is a false solution
• Ignores the root cause of climate change
• Delays transition to renewables
• More expensive than renewables
• Promotes increased extraction of pollution of fossil fuels
• Benefits the fossil fuel industry
• Keeps us reliant on dirty energy
• Carbon Storage and Transfer sites are most likely in EJ/ Low Income and

Indigenous communities

Nuclear Energy

• Moving from carbon based energy to nuclear
• Why it is a false solution
• Radioactivity and nuclear waste
• More expensive than renewables
• Indigenous communities and their lands are targeted for mining and nuclear

waste sites

• Radioactive traces in all fish species in the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima

explosion

Climate Smart Agriculture

• Planting “carbon absorbing plants”
• Supposed to curb harmful air emissions
• Why it is a false solution
• Band-Aid approach
• Heavy corporate influence
• Does no reduce pollution at the source
• Ignores non-corporate farmer and community voices

Forest Management / REDD and REDD+

• Indigenous peoples primarily in the Global South are

asked to replant forests, keep count of trees and in some cases there are evicted from their ancestral and traditional territories.

• Why it is a false solution
• The Global North and other industrialized countries

continue to pollute the air at the same pace or actually could increase the pace of air pollution

• Puts burden on EJ/Low income and Indigenous

communities around the planet

• Heavy corporate and governmental interests

Incineration

• Combustion: burns waste at high temperatures, generating electric

energy and heat

• Plasma Arc Recycling: melts and vaporizes waste
• Two products
• Sygna: mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen
• Used for energy
• Aggregate: glass-like material
• Used for construction
• Why it is a false solution
• Ineffective at eliminating plastic pollution
• Dangerous for human health and marine life
• Emits toxic air pollution, toxic flue ash, other hazardous waste

Biofuels

• Made from recently living plant material, goes contrary to more

biodiversity

• Used to replace other transportation fuels like
• Petroleum and gasoline
• Made from foods such as
• Corn, sugar cane, and soybeans
• Why it is a false solution?
• Maintains reliance on dirty energy
• Speed up deforestation
• Causes food cost to increase, especially in developing countries
• Create competition for resources such as water, land, food

Final Thoughts

• The Dirty 8 false solutions:
• Violate the principles of EJ
• Maintain reliance on dirty energy
• Disproportionately affect the Global South and Indigenous EJ/Low Income

communities

• Does not address the root cause of climate change which is the consumption from

the industrialized nations in the Global North

• Elected officials need to confront the problem of overconsumption of

resources and the reliance on fossil fuels

• Best solution is a global switch to renewables immediately
• The burden should not be on Indigenous, EJ/ Low Income communities, but

Indigenous, EJ/ Low Income communities should be at the forefront of the planning of solutions.

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