TwoDegreesWarmer.com – Climate Adaptation & Activism

TwoDegreesWarmer.com is a community website for discussion on and learning about how we can all best prevent and prepare for climate change.

The name of the website comes from our world’s collective effort to keep global warming under two degrees Celsius. At the same time, it is intended to be a warning shout that whether or not we meet that goal is up to all of us – and we need to be prepared to deal with the consequences of climate change.

Climate change is already here. However, we can all do our part to protect ourselves and our communities in the present and for the future.

Climate Change Goals

Articles on Two Degrees Warmer will typically fall into these two groups:

Activism

Goal One: Fight human behaviors that contribute to the earth’s warming and destruction in the efforts to keep warming to below two degrees Celsius warmer than historical measurements.

Adaptation

Goal Two: Prepare our generation and future generations for the changes we will have to deal with and adapt to as our earth warms.

Assumptions

Now, going into this project we have several assumptions we would like you to be aware of:

First, that collective effort is powerful. One person abandoning single use plastics is great. However, millions of people doing the same is effective change. Moreover, thousands of people calling out corporations, lobbying governments and voting is how we can slow climate change.
Second, that at the same time we are doing everything in our effort to help solve our climate crisis, we are also taking responsibility for preparing ourselves and our families for the future. Adaptation is not easy or cheap. We have to start building a strong, but flexible, foundation now.
Third, these two assumptions are not mutually exclusive. Our individual goals are not contrary to our collective goals. For example, investing our money in companies we believe will be profitable in the changing future is also putting our money in a powerful place for collective change. In other words, investing in wind energy vs coal helps both our bottom lines and our earth’s climate future.