Getting the Government to Support Climate Change Mitigation

If we are to be successful in mitigate climate change, we need to have government support. Some of the measures that need to be taken, in the name of climate change mitigation, can’t be taken without government support. Therefore government support is very critical. Yet getting government support in these sorts of things isn’t so easy. See, some of the things that need to be done, in the name of climate change mitigation, would inevitably hurt certain interests. That is why we tend to encounter resistance in these matters.

All said and done, to get government support in climate change mitigation, there is one main thing that we need to: namely lobbying. So we need to identify the relevant government officials, and lobby them intensively, to get them to support the climate change mitigation agenda.

Identifying the relevant government officials

The relevant government officials in question here are those who wield real power. If we are to succeed in the climate change mitigation agenda, we will need support from the topmost echelons of the government. This therefore means identifying the people who wield the most power in both the political and bureaucratic arms of the government. It really takes the topmost people, to drive change, and overcome the resistance to change that tends to be inherent. Even when the Nordstrom employees portal, which is reviewed on the employeeloginz website was being set up, the topmost management probably had to be convinced about the soundness of the idea. Only then was the Nordstrom employees portal, at set up. Similarly, if we are to drive the climate change mitigation agenda forward, we have to sell it successfully to the topmost levels of the political and bureaucratic arms of the government.

Lobbying the government officials

To successfully lobby the government officials, we need to have sound arguments, backed by verifiable facts and figures. It helps a great deal if we can get professional lobbyists to assist in this cause. You have to remember that the folks who are against climate change mitigation measures will also be lobbying furiously, on the other side.

How to Incorporate Lessons About Climate Change into the School Curriculum

One way to increase climate change awareness is by incorporating lessons about climate change into the school curriculum. This way, kids will be taught about climate change from an early age. They will therefore grow up with climate change awareness as part of their innate knowledge. And as such, they will be more inclined to make the changes that are necessary to mitigate climate change effects, without being coerced. In the process of incorporating lessons about climate change into the school curriculum, we will need to:

  1. Make the relevant pedagogical decisions: these include the decision as to what subjects the climate change lessons are to be incorporated into. Also critical is the decision as to what grade the kids are to be introduced to climate change in, and how they are to progress from there. The objective is to have age-appropriate lessons. So decisions have to be made, as to what the appropriate climate change lessons for, say, third graders would be. And what the appropriate climate change lessons for tenth graders would be… and so on.
  2. Simplify climate change concepts: the lessons should be given in a way that the kids can relate to, given their ages and ability to comprehend things.
  3. Educate the teachers on climate: the objective here is to empower the teachers, so as to ensure that they are well placed to be truly effective at the role of teaching kids about climate change.
  4. Carry out a pilot study: pilot studies are always critical in all undertakings. It is only through pilot studies that concepts can be tested out, and potential challenges identified. Even Lowe’s (the retail chain), probably had to undertake a pilot study, before launching the Lowes Kronos employee portal. In a similar manner, before rolling out the lessons about climate change in the nationwide school curriculum, it is important to first undertake a pilot study.
  5. Roll out the climate change lessons fully: if the pilot studies are successful, you can now proceed to roll out the climate change lessons, that will have been incorporated into the (nationwide) school curriculum.

Using Irrigation to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change

Thanks to climate change, rainfall patterns have become erratic. So you find that in the regions of the world that are greatly affected by climate change, rainfall has become unpredictable. Such places go for long spells of time without rainfall. And then when it does rain, the rainfall tends to be excessive, leading to floods. The whole thing can (on a light note) be likened to the Walmartone schedule, which is accessible to Walmart Associates through the Walmart1 login page: where, sometimes, you have long spells of free time, followed by long periods where you are expected to be on duty.  The rainfall patterns in this age of climate change are like that: you go for long durations of time without rain, and then when it does rain, the rainfall turns out to be excessive and destructive.

Against that background, one of the ways in which we can mitigate the effects of climate change is through the use of irrigation.

Irrigation would make it possible for the people who are affected by climate change to have food, even during the long dry spells. We have just noted that thanks to climate change, people are having to go for long durations of time without rainfall. This often leads to famines: as crops dry up, and livestock ends up being left without pasture or water. So this is the gap that would be filled by the irrigation — ensuring that there is water to grow crops (and maintain livestock) throughout.

For irrigation to be viable, the rain water has to be preserved. This entails building dams. And this is yet another way in which the effects of climate change can be mitigated. For as we have just noted, another effect of climate change is where the erratic rainfall tends to be excessive (when it does rain). But if the water is carefully collected through well designed drainage systems, and directed into dams, it wouldn’t cause much damage. Thus, the harmful effects associated with floods would also have been mitigated.

Conserving Forests to Mitigate Climate Change Effects

One of the ways in which we can mitigate climate change effects is by conserving forests. The science behind this assertion is sound. We know that climate change is primarily caused by carbon emissions. We also know that forests are made up of trees, and that trees have capacity to absorb carbon. It therefore follows that forest conservation can go a long way towards mitigating climate change effects. If we have a huge enough number of trees (in forests and elsewhere), they may be able to absorb all the carbon emissions. Then climate change effects would have been fully mitigated.

The conservation of forests is, however, not as easy as it sounds. There is great demand for the trees that make up the forests. The trees are often cut down, to be processed into timber. In less developed parts of the world, the trees are cut down and burned to yield charcoal. Therefore, conservation of forests often entails hurting certain people’s livelihoods.

There are three strategies that can be employed to conserve forests.

The first strategy is where enforcement officers are employed, to protect the forests. The brief for these officers would be to arrest anyone who encroaches on forest areas, and anyone who cuts down the trees in the forests.

The second strategy is where people are educated on the importance of the forests. People are reasonable, and if they are well-educated on various issues, they tend to respond well. I saw this at work when a certain parcel employee was being trained on the use of the UPS online portal. Within a few minutes, the fellow was able to undertake the UPSers sign in and sign up procedures, and to navigate around the portal. In a similar manner, if a campaign to educate the masses on forest conservation is undertaken, chances are that they will understand the importance of it — and what is expected of them — within a very short period of time.

The third strategy is where an effort is made to be replacing all the trees that are cut from the forests. Thus, for instance, if one tree is cut, another tree is planted to take its place. This is a pragmatic approach, based on appreciation of the fact that people will always have need for timber and other tree products. Therefore, there will always be need for the trees in forests to be cut down. But if a new tree is planted to replace every tree that is cut down, the net effect is that the forests would be well conserved.

Planting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change Effects

Scientists advise us that tree planting is one of the things we can do, to mitigate the effects of climate change. There are, of course, several other measures we can take, to mitigate the effects of climate change. But tree planting is one of the easiest — yet also one of the most effective.

Setting up formal tree planting campaigns

For us to be able to mitigate climate change effects, we need to ensure that we plant a big enough number of trees. So it is not just a question of planting a couple of trees here and there, and then claiming to have mitigated the effects of climate change. On the contrary, for the effect of the planted trees to be felt, we need to be looking at millions – perhaps tens or even hundreds of millions of trees. So it is a big project, which is best undertaken through formal tree planting campaigns.

We may actually find ourselves having to employ people to focus on tree planting (and tree care) on a full-time basis. Thus, the idea of paying full-time salaries through the Securitas paperless talx system, which is accessible online at shouldn’t sound too weird. Indeed, to plant millions of trees, and to be in a position to take proper care of them, we may have no option but to employ such full-time workers.

Planting trees informally

Meanwhile, individuals need to be encouraged to plant trees informally. If a person happens to have an open space outside his house, there is absolutely no reason as to why he can’t plant a couple of trees there. If a nation happens to have, say, 10 million households, and each household plants a couple of trees on average, you’d be looking at 20 million new trees: enough to mitigate the effects of climate change to some extent.

Getting people to support the tree planting campaigns

Obviously, if the tree planting campaigns are to be successful, they need to be supported by the greater public. Getting people to support such campaigns shouldn’t be too hard. You just need to show them that planting trees would be in their best interests, and that they stand to benefit a great deal in the long-run. Once they see ‘what is in it’ for them, they will be inclined to support the campaigns wholeheartedly. That approach is better than trying to force people to support the campaigns through legislation and other such coercive measures.

How to Get the Skeptics to Accept the Climate Change Reality

We still have people out there who don’t believe in the reality of climate change. These people are also known as ‘climate change skeptics’. And they fall into two broad categories. In the first category, we have those who simply believe that the entire climate change story is a hoax, created to achieve certain objectives. And in the second category, we have those who are not entirely convinced that climate change is a reality. They are open to further persuasion, but for now, they are not entirely convinced.

So the challenge that arises is that of getting these climate change skeptics to accept the reality of climate change. How are we to do that? Well, in my view, there are two ways in which we can attempt to get the skeptics to accept the climate change reality, namely:

  1. By demonstrating to them how weather patterns have changed: this should be obvious – where, in some parts of the world, people are experiencing longer summers (than they used to), whereas in other parts, people are experiencing longer winters (than they used to). This is also where we see more frequent floods, droughts and other extreme weather patterns. So it becomes just a matter of highlighting these patterns, and trying to figure out what is causing them. Inevitably, the climate change answer will come up.
  2. By demonstrating to them how climate change is impacting human lives: there are people who will only get to understand the climate change reality when they see how it is affecting human lives. Here, you may be dealing with a fellow who works for a leading American corporation, and who is almost assured of finding a monthly paycheck at Such a fellow knows that he only has to show up at work regularly. Then, at the end of the month, he would log on to, and find a nice paycheck waiting for him. To him, the reality of human existence in other parts of the world is remote. But you can nonetheless make an effort to get him to see how climate change is causing people to immigrate, and how climate change is causing conflicts in various parts of the world. Then, hopefully, he may get to a point of accepting the climate change reality.

Understanding the Connection Between Climate Change and Conflicts








