Shoots for future growth - many extraordinarily positive things happening today - positive counterpart to Doomsday Clock
This is one section from my Doomsday Clock fact check / debunk. They always focus on the negative things going on. But what if they focused on the positives?
Psychologists says we need to focus on true positive stories of what’s going well to motivate and inspire people to action. They call these positive framings - for maximum engagement we need three supportive positive framing for each threat.
Positive framing here
So I had this idea of a “Shoots for future growth” as a positive version of the Doomsday Clock
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Shoots for future growth:
Assad's regime overthrown, and prisoners freed.
Lets Syria reinvent itself and refugees return.
Gaza Strip ceasefire holds and refugees return to Gaza city.Solar panel prices fell almost 10-fold in a decade
Battery prices fell 33-fold since 1991 opening door to electric cars and shorthaul electric plane flights.
- China's CO2 emissions peaked
- IPBES pledges for 30% of land inland waters,
coast and deep sea managed sustainably by 2030
- Huge advances in vaccines and therapeutics
- Great green wall to reverse desertification south of the Sahara Desert well underway.
- Iberian lynx makes remarkable comeback and many other conservation successes.
- Deforestation rates falling in Brazil under Lula
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Here are some of the things the graphic covers:
Nearly 10-fold reducetion in price of electricity from solar from 2009 to 2019
See: Why did renewables become so cheap so fast
They continue to fall in price since then.
97% reduction in price of batteries from 1991 to 2018.
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Let’s put this price decline in perspective:
The popular Nissan Leaf electric car – which is also one of the most affordable models – has a 40 kWh battery. At our 2018 price, the battery costs around $7,300. Imagine trying to buy the same model in 1991: the battery alone would cost $300,000.
Or take the Tesla Model S 75D, which has a 75 kWh battery. In 2018 the battery costs around $13,600; in 1991, it would have been $564,000. More than half a million dollars for a car battery.
This shows how important these price reductions are for decarbonizing not only our electricity grids but our transport systems too.
. The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades
Reduction in deforestation in Brazil:
. Amazon deforestation in Brazil plunges 31% to lowest level in 9 years
Iberian Lynx no longer endangered.
In 2001, there were only 62 individuals left making it critically endangered to 648 mature individuals but now more than 2000, adults and juveniles in the wild in Iberia and Portugal. It now counts as only vulnerable.
Bhutan’s white bellied heron in early stages of being saved from extinction with captive breeding.
See: . Soaring success for the white-bellied heron
Forestry England: Nature success stories of 2024
On the Great Green Wall.
Which of these graphics make you more inspired to action? The Doomsday Clock or the “shoots for future growth”?
You can see the power of positive framing here.
Trumps term will likely see the large-scale use of electric planes for internal transport in the USA - with Florida one of the pioneers
A small company UrbanLink in Florida also is a pioneer in renewables, in all electric aviation. They have ordered 10 planes from Eviation which is one of the leaders in the current race globally to the first commercial short flight all electric planes.
Electric planes have huge potential because they cost far less to run and they are now feasible on short haul flights.
I talk about this in my blog:
BLOG: Rising to the challenge of zero emissions aviation
This is a change that will likely happen within Trump’s term, the first all electric short haul passenger flights in the USA and once it starts it likely will spread fast because the USA is a perfect place for this, with many people doing short-haul flights because of the large distances between urban communities. The range is currently 550 miles for the first one to likely see service, the Alice plane from Eviation. That range will increase as the technology improves. Alice can recharge in 30 minutes so it doesn’t have a major turn-around time.
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Eviation Aircraft, the innovative company behind developing the world’s first all-electric aircraft, Alice, has announced a new partnership with South Florida-based UrbanLink Air Mobility.
This collaboration involves a commitment to provide 10 Alice commuter aircraft to UrbanLink, signifying a major advancement in the field of Advanced Air Mobility.
The deal will also explore an option to acquire an additional ten planes.
The new aircraft will support UrbanLink’s commitment to developing an all-electric fleet of aircraft, marine craft, and ground vehicles to provide end-to-end zero-emission transportation.
Operating out of its hub cities of Miami, Los Angeles, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, UrbanLink will deploy Alice as part of its urban mobility solutions.
With orders totaling more than US$ 5 billion, the all-electric Alice heralds a new era of sustainable air travel.
Alice’s 9-seat commuter and cargo versions are designed to delight customers and passengers with innovative technology and beautiful design while also providing carbon-free and cost-effective point-to-point travel.
. World’s 1st all-electric planes to fly in US, 505-mile range on 30-min charge
Alice’s first flight was two years ago.
The manufacturing is based in Seattle.
287 mph half the speed of a Boeing 747 and range about 550 miles.
plan to increase to a 20 to 40 seat passenger aircraft like a commuter aircraft.
Ideally suited for moving packages in late evening / early morning for FedEx / DHL.
I talk about these developments in my
BLOG: Rising to the challenge of zero emissions aviation
See:
There are numerous other things we could add here.
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I do the short debunks more often but they are less polished - they are copies of my longer replies to scared people in the Facebook group.rough Ukraine and will do so no matter what its allies do to support Ukraine.
TIPS FOR DEALING WITH DOOMSDAY FEARS
If suicidal or helping someone suicidal see my:
BLOG: Supporting someone who is suicidal
If you have got scared by any of this, health professionals can help. Many of those affected do get help and find it makes a big difference.
They can’t do fact checking, don’t expect that of them. But they can do a huge amount to help with the panic, anxiety, maladaptive responses to fear and so on.
Also do remember that therapy is not like physical medicine. The only way a therapist can diagnose or indeed treat you is by talking to you and listening to you. If this dialogue isn’t working for whatever reason do remember you can always ask to change to another therapist and it doesn’t reflect badly on your current therapist to do this.
Also check out my Seven tips for dealing with doomsday fears based on things that help those scared, including a section about ways that health professionals can help you.
I know that sadly many of the people we help can’t access therapy for one reason or another - usually long waiting lists or the costs.
There is much you can do to help yourself. As well as those seven tips, see my:
BLOG: Breathe in and out slowly and deeply and other ways to calm a panic attack
BLOG: Tips from CBT
— might help some of you to deal with doomsday anxieties