Climate Change

In the Spring of 2023, it is a good time to take account of where NCSD is in the Global Struggle to change of course of human societies reliance on fossil fuels exclusively and introduce technologies that are helping to slow Climate Change and the carbon pollution upon which it relies.The work of NCSD relies upon an understanding of national poliices that can either encourage or discourage the adoption of climate change mitigation techniques through technology adoption.

NCSD has always tried during its 22 year history as an national NGO dealing in this subject area to recognize that no one on earth can do much in isolation and that the collaborative process is the way to proceed. No one has the corner on the market for good ideas! NCSD does not compete in the Climate Change space in the area of opinions rather we adopted long ago the “demonstration”  approach to the workability and the effectiveness of mitigation of the technologies we promote. Such technologies are generally from small companies whose founders are the developers of technology.

The four key elements of climate change strategy are,

• Decarbonization

The work of recent leaders embracing the need for Climate mitigation strategy has centered on the concept of “decarbonization.” This is a twofold approach: first to remove the amount of carbon pollution currently in the atmosphere and second to reduce new carbon pollution entering the atmosphere. All and more can be under the general heading of decarbonization but they fall into one or the other approaches.  Decarbonization of the atmosphere is on the leading edge of technology and has some innovative approaches but it is a huge mountain to climb. Atmospheric carbon pollution can naturally dissipate but manmade pollution usually is more complex and harder for nature to break down.

Reducing the amount of carbon emissions exhausted into the atmosphere has the benefit of reducing new harder to break down pollution and can be reduced in many different ways through technology and governmental policy. This technological approach is the one NCSD has embraced as most realistic and manageable and the quickest to be affected by new carbon reduction methods and technology.

• Environmental Solutions

Many of the environmental issues that leaders struggle with now are results of power generation, extraction of minerals, poor farming practices and generally a bias against replacing old methods of interacting with the environment due to cost and familiarity with past practices. The old economic paradigms cannot be overstated either; as many environmental issues are the result of practices known to be destructive but still are supported by previous economic policies.

Environmental issues often can be readily mitigated with widespread adoption of new technologies and economic policy changes. Technology can allow for conservation of resources and replacement of scarce for readily available resources.

• Green Energy Innovation

As the fossil fuels combustion era is slowly being supplanted by clean energy technology relying in many cases upon the economics of nature: technology and the resource conservation and efficiency derived from it.  New approaches still in their infancy offer the opportunity to change the dynamics of the economic basis supporting carbon emitting methodologies. Solar and Wind are greatly productive but that is only a small part of the energy production and distribution equation. Electric power cannot be delayed, it must be used when generated and the mean of transmitting over distance have not really changed since widespread adoption through transmission lines and electric grid technology. The Green Energy Sector in large part is the “Electricity Future Sector “but to replace it: electricity’s shortcomings with transportability, storage, distribution and clean operations still are works in progress.

• Water Resources Management

More than power, water is and has been the arbiter of who and what succeeds and who and what does not. Water is abundant on earth but 98 % of it is not potable the standard for people and industries: referred to as clean water. This naturally occurring resource is one that we know a lot about but again technology can all us to do more with less. Already we have seen that water is a critical issue of Climate Change and its loss or overabundance will change our global society in the greatest fashion imaginable. This is a great priority and increasingly will define as it has for all of history who succeeds and who perishes.