# What can be done (climate change debate)? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-be-done-climate-change-debate/683384 **Category:** Great Debates **Created:** [March 10, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-be-done-climate-change-debate/683384 "2014-03-10T21:18:52Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT) #### Post date: [March 10, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-be-done-climate-change-debate/683384/1 "2014-03-10T21:18:52Z")
We have a lot of debates about climate change on the board. To be honest, I’m not interested in another one debating whether or not it’s happening or whether or not humans are the cause. Let’s take it as a given that climate change is happening, and that a large or at least non-zero part of it is caused by human actions. Let’s take it as a given that at a minimum the IPCC projections for the 50-100 years (i.e. 1.5-2 degrees C increase likely) are going to happen. If you disagree with the fact that global climate change is happening and that it’s got a human component then feel free to go debate in another thread…this isn’t the thread for you. What I’m looking for is…what can we reasonably and realistically do about it? I’m looking at this from a global perspective. Given the attitude of both the public in the various countries and the various governments around the world (especially the large, powerful countries such as China, India, the US, the powerful European and other Asian nations, etc), what can actually and realistically be done to change the outcome? And this runs the spectrum from mitigation strategies to pro-active measures designed to, in theory, shift the final outcome…to anything in-between. Whatever you, the poster, thinks we both should do and actually CAN do from a real world perspective…and what you think the realistic proposals you offer will actually change, i.e. what will the realistic outcome of your proposal be wrt the final outcome of the changing climate. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-be-done-climate-change-debate/683384)._