Introducing Carbon 350

Carbon 350 is a newsletter of ideas, insight, and imagination for solving the climate crisis. Yes, we can solve climate change. Carbon 350 shows us how.

Climate change is a complex problem, and the complexity is made worse by a confusing array of ideologically-driven positions taken by people on the right and the left. On the right, you have libertarians who deny climate change because they are afraid of losing their liberty. On the left, you have progressives claiming that capitalism has to die, consumption must shrink by 70%, the economy must degrow, and socialism should rule the world. In the middle, you have corporations greenwashing their activities in a pretend change no one believes, and a whole lot of regular people confused about what climate change really means. Carbon 350 is here to cut through the noise, clarify the challenge, redefine the debate, and declare real doable solutions.

What everyone seems to be missing is one key fact: to solve climate change, all we have to do is take the carbon out of the air. Hence, Carbon 350 has a simple mission: Focus precisely on reducing atmospheric carbon to 350 ppm, as per the guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and stay healthy doing it. Reaching carbon 350 means two things--stop emitting carbon and pulling existing carbon out of the air. Staying healthy means maintaining hope and resisting the doomer dialogs that surround us. Carbon 350 is your partner in that effort. We need your help to accomplish the goals.

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Please subscribe. We all need to get our minds focused on this existential crisis. There are free, paid, and founding member subscriptions.

Free subscribers are important because when you subscribe, you put your name down as part of an interested audience. You will get selected articles sent in full text, links to the others, and a lot of information on what you can do on climate change.

However, I ask you to please consider a paid subscription. We need every dollar we can get to promote the Carbon 350 message. The money pays for people to set up interviews and speaking engagements, cover travel when host events can't do it, pay for marketing materials, internet logistics, and more.

Plus, paying subscribers get everything Carbon 350 has to offer. You will get:

• the full text of the blog posts in your email so you don’t have to go over to Medium.com

• digests and updates on new technologies, breakthroughs, and other solutions to climate change

• inspiration for actions to take to get full maximum contribution you can provide

• the satisfaction of supporting a sane approach to climate change

If you are in that rare group where you can really see the value of this project and have the means to support it financially, please consider a founding member contribution. These memberships start at $250 and can be given at $500, $1,000, or any level you wish. We have no way to get the word out but through the contributions of folks like yourself. This is too important. Your help will be deeply appreciated—not just now, but for generations to come.