What Needs to Be Done Now to Save the Earth
Providing multi-level actions for everybody around the world
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What is Going On?
The earth is dying because of too much manure and pollution. More diseases like COVID or AIDS, STDs, could become more rampant. Our food could acidify (the oceans already are, and probably food too if anybody has been calculating that). Our food and air could be manure and petroleum-filled, leading to abnormalities in birth rates (which is already happening, FYI).
If you want the saddest details of our demise because we are not planning and acting fast enough, here they are:
“Leading wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has revealed very low numbers of butterflies have been spotted so far in their annual Big Butterfly Count. On average participants are seeing just over half the number of butterflies they were spotting this time last year…
However, the charity is also warning that it is not only this year’s weather that is contributing to the lack of butterflies being seen. 80% of butterflies in the UK have declined since the 1970s, with habitat loss, climate change and pesticide use the main drivers of this decline.
Dr Dan Hoare continues: “The lack of butterflies this year is a warning sign to us all. Nature is sounding the alarm and we must listen. Butterflies are a key indicator species. When they are in trouble we know the wider environment is in trouble too.” — Butterfly Conservation
“The Amazon rainforest is now emitting more carbon dioxide than it is able to absorb, scientists have confirmed for the first time. The emissions amount to a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, according to a study. The giant forest had previously been a carbon sink, absorbing the emissions driving the climate crisis, but is now causing its acceleration, researchers said. Most of the emissions are caused by fires, many deliberately set to clear land for beef and soy production. But even without fires, hotter temperatures and droughts mean the south-eastern Amazon has become a source of CO2, rather than a sink. Growing trees and plants have taken up about a quarter of all fossil fuel emissions since 1960, with the Amazon playing a major role as the largest tropical forest. Losing the Amazon’s power to capture CO2 is a stark warning that slashing emissions from fossil fuels is more urgent than ever, scientists said.” — The Guardian
So, obviously we have a Problem. I have detailed solutions below.
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Basic Necessities to Save the Earth:
We need things to be clean.
We need things to be efficient.
We need things to be in harmony with the environment, ecology, the natural world.
We need to use new green technologies.
We need to use intelligent and kind diplomacy with each other. We are One World. We can solve this crisis Together.
We need to be Planners. Let’s not wait idly by until another disease crisis infiltrates the air or our food becomes ultimately inedible. Let’s use our Intelligence to start acting quickly now.
Solution Outline and Responsibilities of Each Party:
Personal Efforts
United Nations Efforts
Government Efforts
Factory Efforts
NASA/MIT System Dynamics/Environmental Protection Agency Cooperation Efforts
Personal Efforts:
Plant gardens upon gardens upon gardens. For plants, animals, meditation, dating, love, life.
Sustainable farms with diverse produce so you can be completely sustainable and self-sufficient and ensure you have food for your community (rather than just wheat/rice/soy crops that you couldn’t survive on if exportation from another country fell through.)
Plant cannabis, hemp, everywhere possible because it consumes massive amounts of carbon and can also replace plastic produce that are non-biodegradable with products that are like plastic, but biodegradable! It also helps regenerate soil, producing good soil for produce. “Yes, hemp can regenerate soil by adding nutrients, removing toxins, and improving soil structure. Hemp is a good fit for regenerative farming, which aims to restore the soil’s carbon, water, and nutrient cycles.” — Google AI
Other good plants that reduce carbon from the air: live oak, eucalyptus, poplar, evergreen sequoia, scots pine, mangroves
Plant flowers for the bees! We need more bees! “The bee population is declining globally due to a variety of factors, including climate change, habitat loss, and pesticides.” — Google AI
Stop using chemical products (fertilizers, pesticides) and start using organic options like horse poop, or something in your community. It’s quite easy. Look it up online!
Stop using chemical products in your home. There are so many organic options at Target, Safeway, Amazon, etc. I have written about them in a lot of my blogs. Just do a Google Search for what you need for soap, cleaning, etc. that is biodegradable and safe for our water system and your children so we do not ingest chemicals. Thank you.
Try out Veganism. Make sure you get B12, which can be found in nutritional yeast at your local co-op or organic store. Use a blender for fresh juices that are elevating for your mood. Try home-cooked meals that include complete proteins. When you combine complete proteins with vitamin C this is the optimal combination, according to my research. I am always open to new ideas, so feel free to message me your recipes!
Look into Home Bio Gas, it’s a really cool new eco-tech company!
What ideas do you have? Feel free to comment below!
United Nations Efforts for the Poor, Free:
Solar/Nuclear/Wind/Sensorial panels for: Refrigeration for animal products (so we don’t get another COVID/AIDS/who knows what in the air that spreads to everyone.)
Separation of animal products from produce in all markets
Solar/Nuclear/Wind/Sensorial panels for: Hot water showers
Solar/Nuclear/Wind/Sensorial panels for: Washers for clothes to be cleaned
Compostable, clean, sanitary bathrooms for the developing world, plus places for washing hands with soap. (Look up Enviro-Loo from South Africa.)
All we have to do is redistribute money from the rich to these projects so we can avoid another COVID, AIDS/HIV, any virus, pathogen, that could cause many lives to suffer, be killed, or end up with an STD.
Perhaps learn from or partner with GiveDirectly, an organization that gives money directly without stipulations to all of the poor all over the world so they can rise. Learn more about GiveDirectly at https://www.givedirectly.org/home/
Give to young bright entrepreneurs with a purpose for people and planet (This is the Compassion Network I’m seeking to start. You can learn about it here: bit.ly/TheCompassionNetwork If you have advice for me, please email me at ashleyheacock@gmail.com) Or if the UN can initiate this project, I would be grateful!
What ideas do you have? Feel free to comment below!
Government Actions:
Net Zero Emissions by 20XX (What would an Excel Spread Sheet / System Dynamics program tell you to do? How much do we need to do now to avert death and destruction of the earth? Look what this Chinese University, School of Management and Engineering, Capital University of Economics and Business, did with the Vensim program for calculating pollution.)
Net Factory Emissions lowered by x% by 20XX
Net manure emissions lowered by x% by 20XX
Investing in Solar/Nuclear/Wind/Sensorial panels for your electric grid
What else?
Incentivize Sustainable Farms that are diverse and able to provide for the community what they need to survive, rather than just cash crops. This can be turned into Army-non-violent Prisoners-Jobless people initiative. We can then have a network of farms for people to live, including the homeless who could then have meaningful work. Women can also work on the farms, gardening, cooking, cleaning. You can learn more about this program I have been envisioning here: bit.ly/OrganicCommunityFarm
7. What ideas do you have? Feel free to comment below!
Factory Actions:
Start researching renewable energy sources
What is most efficient?
What is most long-lasting?
What is most practical?
What is the best product on the market?
Think about the long term, not the short term. You can get a loan, and have more security knowing you got the best product out there.
What ideas do you have? Feel free to comment below! Or share what incredible technology you have to offer the world!
NASA/MIT System Dynamics/Environmental Protection Agency Cooperation Efforts
Start an atmospheric research department that does kind of what Google Maps does. It shows where the carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. hot spots are around the entire globe. That way we can begin to map out where all of this pollution is coming from, and where all of the spots are that are helping absorb it. I would consider water, air, earth, etc. However, I would also consider what I wrote about in my first article, about how we are all involved and implicated in different ways, and my second article that outlines potential variables.
Start laboratory tests. One where there is manure and petroleum pollution everywhere, etc. however, with hardly any plants, kind of like a city. Then do another laboratory where there are a lot of plants. Discover which ones soak up the most carbon, or whatever categories you all come up with that would be beneficial. Then, bring politicians to the two labs, and show them the costs of not helping save the earth.
Start using System Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence in your work. If you are not aware of what System Dynamics is (which was started at MIT and I took the classes), you can read my second article here. You have to scroll down to the bottom to see the diagrams. I believe this will be very beneficial for your team. You can download Vensim for free here.
You can contact the MIT System Dynamics team here. You can contact NASA here. You can contact the Environmental Protection Agency if you have a contact there, or here is the contact for the EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, here.
What ideas do you all have? Feel free to comment below!
Written by
Ashley Heacock
MIT Sloan School of Management, MBA
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, MPA
The George Washington University, BA Economics, BA International Affairs
Contact: ashleyheacock@gmail.com
Website: awakeningconsciousness.community
