That looks like an interesting attempt to answer a question many others have tried to answer . (These are also being discussed in an AAAS forum where people try to figure out what, can, and should be done—i have seen quite a few analyses and reccomendations of varying technical sophistication, and while they overlap, its overwhelming and beyond my competency to do more than just see which looks best.
Your top 5 causes all look good to me, as well as your larger list in the ‘green box’ in your diagram.
I would probably have 10-15 causes all ranked about same level. Also, I might have causes ‘geographically’ clustered, ie people should work on ones nearby, however defined.
I tend to thijnk transportation may be underranked, as well as clean energy, though I may be wrong. I wonder if transportation includes all the road building, airports, and energy used to make cars, planes,ships, shipping containers etc. --’life cycle analyses. Aslo , transportation has indirect effects—sprawl, lifestyles, etc. Resorts, casinos, convention centers are buldings, but exist partly due to transportation. Alot more could be said.
if you google ‘food loss and waste USFDA ’ they have some numbers and reports that appear to go through the details—they say there is loss every step of the way. I remember my own stores used to throw away what seemed to be immense amount of fruit and vegetables, and things like yogurt and cheese, and bread and pastry. Now i can’t tell because they have locked the dumpsters to keep people from getting free food, there is some organized collection of unused food, and also they do the trash now at times I am not around.
I tend to think alot small things like diet, food loss, and transportation actually could add up and also be ‘easily implemented’ in the short term, while the more difficult ones requiring engineering/technolopgy would be done as they became feasible.
But as anyone familiar with things like addiction , cigaerette use, obesity, diet change to even a low meat diet (i forget the term), views on issues like religion, evolution, sex, politics, economics , etc even ‘easy things to change’ (behavior, or ideas) sometimes is no faster than making technological advances.
That looks like an interesting attempt to answer a question many others have tried to answer . (These are also being discussed in an AAAS forum where people try to figure out what, can, and should be done—i have seen quite a few analyses and reccomendations of varying technical sophistication, and while they overlap, its overwhelming and beyond my competency to do more than just see which looks best.
Your top 5 causes all look good to me, as well as your larger list in the ‘green box’ in your diagram.
I would probably have 10-15 causes all ranked about same level. Also, I might have causes ‘geographically’ clustered, ie people should work on ones nearby, however defined.
I tend to thijnk transportation may be underranked, as well as clean energy, though I may be wrong. I wonder if transportation includes all the road building, airports, and energy used to make cars, planes,ships, shipping containers etc. --’life cycle analyses. Aslo , transportation has indirect effects—sprawl, lifestyles, etc. Resorts, casinos, convention centers are buldings, but exist partly due to transportation. Alot more could be said.
if you google ‘food loss and waste USFDA ’ they have some numbers and reports that appear to go through the details—they say there is loss every step of the way. I remember my own stores used to throw away what seemed to be immense amount of fruit and vegetables, and things like yogurt and cheese, and bread and pastry. Now i can’t tell because they have locked the dumpsters to keep people from getting free food, there is some organized collection of unused food, and also they do the trash now at times I am not around.
I tend to think alot small things like diet, food loss, and transportation actually could add up and also be ‘easily implemented’ in the short term, while the more difficult ones requiring engineering/technolopgy would be done as they became feasible.
But as anyone familiar with things like addiction , cigaerette use, obesity, diet change to even a low meat diet (i forget the term), views on issues like religion, evolution, sex, politics, economics , etc even ‘easy things to change’ (behavior, or ideas) sometimes is no faster than making technological advances.