Jaccard offers up solid advice on what citizens can do to fight climate change

The following an excerpt from Mark Jaccard's The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths That Hinder Progress, one of five books nominated for this year’s Donner Prize for the best public policy book of the year.

Author Mark Jaccard: 'Fortunately, we can eliminate GHG emissions without destroying our economy or completely transforming our behaviour and economic system. We just need to stop the open burning of coal, oil products, and natural gas. But for that to happen, we need more climate-concerned citizens to see this simple truth—and that is why I wrote this book.'Photograph courtesy of Cambridge University Press

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BY MARK JACCARD

May 10, 2021

This leaves one last task on the simple path to climate success. We must be able to detect and elect climate-sincere politicians, and then pressure them to implement a few simple policies, such that any citizen can detect procrastination and evasion. The nature of this task crystalized for me a few ...

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