Ethical Approaches To Delivering Climate Change News

An ethical solution for corporations that is also lucrative involves a new emerging market

<li>Implying we need society to survive is unethical</li>

Climate Impact Intensity

Depending upon the government to change things will lead to ruin ...

[15] Herweijer, C., Waughray, D., &amp; Warren, S. (2018). Building Block(chain)s for a Better Planet.&nbsp;World Economic Forum. Retrieved from http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Building-Blockchains.pdf

Some scientists try to give solutions, but on too broad of a scale

[5] research finds that the dirtiest 5% of fossil fuel power plants in nations throughout the world are disproportionately responsible for large shares of their sectors' total emissions. If these plants continued generating the same amount of electricity but met particular intensity targets through enhanced efficiencies or through other means, the world's total electricity‐based carbon emissions could be reduced by as much as 40%

[14] Chen, D. (2018). Utility of the Blockchain for Climate Mitigation.&nbsp;The Journal of the British Blockchain Association,&nbsp;1(1), 1–9. doi: 10.31585/jbba-1-1-(6)2018

Governments are too slow to adapt especially due to lobbyists who place money ahead of ecology and keep us running "business as usual"

Based on these results, the most appropriate way to deliver the "news" would be to show the idea that we need to migrate. Saying that civilization will end doesn't help

Contemplation of ethics can be leveraged to promote self-sustainable action on the individual level rather than spreading fear

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... however, while municipal governments can show success with self-sustainable implementation, the national government may not have the same interests

We each, as individuals and families, have the power to revert to self-sustaining means of living. To imply we need modern societal structures to survive is short-sighted and merely plays into the hands of the capitalists who run "business as usual"

We don't realistically have the time to pretend that filling in the circles of ballots every 2 years will solve our problems. Instead, thought leaders ought to promote an ethical form of rebellion against the current system: self-sustainability

If everyone had their own solar/wind energy units, coupled with land to farm and grow plants, dependence upon society would be minimal. Capitalist systems would no longer involve the mass manufacturing of common modern "necessities" (e.g., food, oil) which are known to drive lots of resource expenditure and thus carbon pollution

[15] The underlying technology behind Bitcoin had the power to cut intermediary and reconciliation costs and revolutionize manual, frequently disjointed, opaque processes to increase their efficiency

As time progresses, the northern latitudes will increasingly become affected by the climate. As with the south, the rate of change of pressure decreases slightly

[6] Ganesh, C., &amp; Smith, J. A. (2018). Climate Change, Public Health, and Policy: A California Case Study.&nbsp;American Journal of Public Health,&nbsp;108(S2). doi: 10.2105/ajph.2017.304047

[11] Bello, A., &amp; Dola, K. (2014). Sustainable Development and the Role of Local Governance: Experience from Malaysian Model Regions.&nbsp;International Journal of Humanities and Social Science,&nbsp;4. Retrieved from http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_1_January_2014/31.pdf

Essentially ... if a bus is accelerating towards the precipice of a cliff and there is too much momentum, jumping off the bus as individuals is the most reasonable action

[3] Block leaders, energy champions and social networks can be leveraged to encourage climate action. [...] One meta-analysis found this strategy to be the single most effective intervention strategy for encouraging pro-environmental behaviour

Blockchain technology provides the cryptographically secure backbone needed to perform financial transactions, assert agreements across networks, and share information with others without the need of the common middleman scenario

The distribution above is taken from the previous maps. We see that most of the zones happen to have "moderate" impact.

NASA's Supercomputer Simulation is closely in accordance with my models ...

Distribution of the Climate-Impact Intensity (CII)

[1] Among abstracts expressing a position on [anthropogenic global warming], 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.

<li>Providing policy-level solutions and expecting it to solve the climate emergency is unethical</li>

To verify my results from previous years, I performed a similar analysis using independent datasets [DS0] of historical temperatures between 1970 to 2010. Effectively, this analysis also helps establish habitable zones by gradient.

[0] Cook, J., Nuccitelli, D., Green, S. A., Richardson, M., Winkler, B., Painting, R., … Skuce, A. (2013). Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature.&nbsp;Environmental Research Letters,&nbsp;8(2), 024024. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024

Policies and economic incentives can help "influence" corporate decision making, but these methods alone are unethical due to the lack of extreme intervention implied. Corporations look for long-term growth, but fail to see reality

Some may argue that moving towards a self-sustainable way of living is harmful for the economy. However, some scientists do not agree

Reducing our attachment to the grid will also greatly reduce "dirty" carbon emissions

There is a mathematical extrapolation to the year 2050, as well as one to the year 2100...

The average temperature, the solar radiation, and the average precipitation were each normalized between [0, 1]. Thereafter, a weighted sum was performed with scalars (0.4, 0.4, 0.2) respectively between the datasets

Historically, for example, Malaysia has experience with using local government to promulgate self-sustainability

[4] Yohe, G.W., R.D. Lasco, Q.K. Ahmad, N.W. Arnell, S.J. Cohen, C. Hope, A.C. Janetos and R.T. Perez, 2007: Perspectives on climate change and sustainability. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 811-841.

[1] <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-supercomputer-generates-closer-look-at-future-climate-conditions-in-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NASA Supercomputer simulation</a> (2013)

[5] Jorgenson, A., Fiske, S., Hubacek, K., Mcgovern, T., Rick, T., Schor, J., … Zycherman, A. (2018). Social Science Perspectives on Drivers of and Responses to Global Climate Change.&nbsp;Wiley Periodicals, Inc. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/hcsge

Consumers need land, and land requires management. Local governments must step-up and begin enforcing the drastic transition to self-sustainability on the residential level

... the pressure is continuing to shift upwards

[3] Sussman, R., Gifford, R., &amp; Abrahamse, W. (2016). Social Mobilization: How to encourage action on climate change.&nbsp;Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Retrieved from https://pics.uvic.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/FINAL Social mobilization-Sussman Gifford.pdf

[10] Owusu, P. A., &amp; Asumadu-Sarkodie, S. (2016). A review of renewable energy sources, sustainability issues and climate change mitigation.&nbsp;Cogent Engineering,&nbsp;3(1). doi: 10.1080/23311916.2016.1167990

However, it is most ethical to combine climate extrapolations and research to determine what each individual must do to survive off the land in the event our society cannot enact in time. The system can fall, but humanity does not have to fall with it

[13] Blockchain, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), smart contracts and other disruptive technologies hold out the promise of addressing the needs of new generation climate markets post-2020.

<li>Implying that we need to save modern civilization instead of saving our ecology and humanity first is unethical</li>

Many simulated and extrapolated climate models illuminate the idea that the closer to the equator one is, the greater the impact of heat. Furthermore, other areas will be greatly impacted: "populations inhabiting low-lying coastal regions, small island states, and floodplains will increasingly be at risk of displacement, necessitating international discussion of relocation options." [12]

Self-sustainable off-grid homes that use modern technology to assist living-off the land need parts. Parts for machines, parts of solar capture, parts for general maintenance, etc.

[2] Countries in the developing world would suffer both the direct effects of drought and flood and the knock-on effect of agricultural and economic decline in the West

The existential risk of climate change is considered very frequently in scientific literature

[14] The blockchain is a technology that can help establish consensus within society over information and value, and it will likely play an important role in improving the accountability and transparency of carbon markets and energy markets

An important concept that was not considered by the previous maps is the location of our nation's food. The heatmap [DS1] shows where the grain of the continental United States comes from. Concerningly, about 50-60% of the blue-zone (i.e., zones of high grain yield) overlaps with the moderate to high climate pressure zones. The bottom line is that we need to re think "where" we live

[4] Sustainable natural-resource management is a key to sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. It calls for clean energy sources; and the nature and pattern of agriculture, industry and trade should not unduly impinge on ecological health and resilience. Otherwise, the very basis of economic growth will be shattered through environmental degradation

Self-sustainability is the ethical rebellion scientists must promote

[7] economic growth is inherently unethical: it harms the environment, is fuelled by the worst excesses of human greed and selfishness, and the wealth it creates is unfairly distributed.

Change begins with the individual... and not just any change ... individuals must radically change lifestyles, sociopolitical dependencies, and location ...

Corporations are major drivers of economic growth, yet have a hard time accounting for climate change due to a pressure created by the conflict below:

The emerging market must first gravitate existing corporations with the help of the government, and then all existing corporations ought to be treated like factories as they were during world war II. All corporations above a certain tax bracket should be manufacturers for a "climate-crisis" economy, akin to the "war time economy" back during WWII which saw the conversion of many factories into wartime factories.

Self-sustainability is both adaptive and mitigative

[9] Watts, C. (2015). The cost of inaction: Recognising the value at risk from climate change.&nbsp;The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited. Retrieved from https://eiuperspectives.economist.com/sites/default/files/The cost of inaction_0.pdf

[9] The potential impact of climate-related change on the assets owned and managed by institutional investors is significant. Our estimates indicate that asset managers can expect present-day losses of US$4.2trn to the US$143trn of current manageable assets as a result of climate change by 2100 at a private-sector discount rate, equivalent to the entire GDP of Japan

[12] Mcleman, R. A., &amp; Hunter, L. M. (2011). Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: insights from analogues.&nbsp;Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. doi: 10.1002/wcc.51

[2] Butler, C. (2018). Climate Change, Health and Existential Risks to Civilization: A Comprehensive Review (1989–2013).&nbsp;International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,&nbsp;15(10), 2266. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15102266

By reducing our attachment to society, the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere will decrease.

There are several conjectures into common climate ethics that will be defended, explored, and applied to determine proper resolutions

Scientists should capitalize on their predictions and turn gloom into a movement of individual empowerment towards self-sustainability

Furthermore, since conservation will be of the highest importance in a self-sustaining human ecosystem, being able to be as efficient as possible with the expenditure of energy will be paramount. Thankfully, blockchain technology will help us achieve that goal

It is unethical for scientists to leave a foreboding extrapolation that points to societal demise. It is most ethical to deliver both extrapolation as well as remedial action that does not depend upon government, and rather, the individual

[13] Blockchain and Emerging Digital Technologies for Enhancing Post-2020 Climate Markets. (2018).&nbsp;International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. doi: 10.1596/29499

The conflict above is known as the Tragedy of The Horizon, and was coined by Governor Mark Carney of the Bank of England [8]. This problem is serious, because corporations will continue to fight to meet deadlines and expectations even if it means undercutting the livelihood of future generations.

Indeed, using influential individuals to drive change is useful. However, the focus still lacks a plan involving the specific content needing to be promulgated throughout society such that individuals become more self-sustainable. Furthermore, in an independent study, implementing policy in a related topic is often difficult:

We get the point. At this point, re-iteration of what we know is stalling time and resources

[10] [Governments must] give tax exemptions to firms who prove to provide energy efficiency initiatives (energy-efficient homes), product design (energy-efficient equipment) and services (industrial combined heat and power). Introducing the concept of usability, adaptability and accessibility into energy-dependent product design is a way of promoting energy efficient behaviours

My predictions reinforce the idea that individuals must migrate north ...

First, the science regarding the primary causes of climate change is settled

Corporate stalemating and The Tragedy of The Horizon

[8]&nbsp;Companies are under constant pressure to deliver short-term results, to meet investor expectations on a quarterly basis [...] Climate change poses longer-term risks that extend beyond the considerations of the typical business planning cycle

Pressure is building from the lower latitudes upwards

[6] Linking adaptation and mitigation, along with coordination, might be the 2 most difficult challenges facing any community or state that seeks to address the health effects of climate change.

The existential risk is clear. However, scientists - as members of nature - should also provide ethical support in the conclusion of these papers rather than the gloom seen above. The gloom is likely factual, although, when tilting off a cliff, remedial action should be the first instinct after identifying the problem. This way, news outlets can spend more time providing solutions rather than spreading fear.

However, as I've iterated, policy-change alone is not enough, but it is a valid first step. The next steps depend upon the consumers of the green technology

[DS0] Average Temperature, precipitation, and solar radiation: <a href="http://worldclim.org/version2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://worldclim.org/version2</a>

[7] Lee, P. (2014). Ethics and climate change policy.&nbsp;The Global Warming Policy Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2014/12/Lee-Ethics-climate-change.pdf

Between 2100 and 2050, the data shows how the northern states will be increasingly affected

One of the core "needs" that must be addressed in climate-change affected markets is governance. Even if a group of individuals are self-sustaining, governance will be necessary. To be able to control the commodities shared by the whole on common land, including pointing public funds in a communally-beneficial direction, blockchains should preferably be used. Blockchain technology excels at consensus of information, implying that common democratic features like voting will be maintainable. Relevantly, consensus of data such as carbon emission can also be tracked.

[5] Economic activities, and associated growth in income and consumption are major drivers of carbon emissions

The results from the analysis upon independent datasets correlate to my earlier extrapolations for the overlapping extent (i.e., the continental US). In general, it is safe to say that there will be habitable zones on Earth throughout the 21st century and beyond, but those zones are away from the central and southern latitudes

The data is clear: to maximize survivabilty, we must move north

Our Western capitalist cultures are the bus. And unfortunately, solutions for slowing the bus down usually imply the "necessity" for us to all stay on the bus and try to slow it down. That is ludicrous! Why would we bother trying to save the very system that is creating this existential nightmare? To imply such an absurdity is unethical, and climate scientists must help us dispel the illusion of necessary dependency

<li>Providing a cataclysmic extrapolation based on data and research without including remedial actions is unethical</li>

[8] Breitinger, D., Farnworth, E., &amp; Donnelly, M. (2018). How to Set Up Effective Climate Governance on Corporate Boards.&nbsp;World Economic Forum. Retrieved from http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Creating_effective_climate_governance_on_corporate_boards.pdf

The Climate Impact Intensity (comparison)

Scientists must change gears. But in which way must they shift? To answer this, we will first define some basic ethical principles

Scientists have the power to shift public perception and thus promote action

[11] Much is however needed in improving the local administrative capacities, as the relative progress is invisible at the national scale

In 2018, I used OSU's PRISM datasets to linearly extrapolate 122 years data in order to determine the amount of "pressure" each region would experience due to the change in three climatic variables: mean temperature, mean dew point, and mean precipitation.

But how do we change the direction of the agents of economic growth? There are several hurdles ...

Society can fall, but our ecological systems do not have to fall with it!

<li>Providing any type of solution without promoting self-sustainable means of living is unethical</li>

[11]&nbsp;Local Governance plays [an] important role [of achieving] sustainable development as it is the closest to the people

To push corporations into a "climate-crisis economy", gravitation thereto must first be implemented at the policy-level for each nation state

Sometimes in adversity, there is opportunity. Scientists must help identify solutions that acquiesce corporations over to the "green side"