We are, of course, in perilous climate change times - forest firestorms in the West, power plant killing freezes in the South, 100 year floods in Australia, killing off of coral reefs due to heat stress, etc. etc. etc.
Our approach has to be two pronged - less production of carbon and methane - and more pulling of carbon from the atmosphere. There are three projects that I have recently read about that give me hope.
You pull carbon out of the atmosphere by adding greenery on the ground. There are scientists, the "Weather Makers", looking to turn the Sanai desert green in Egypt, and they have a plan, and the Egyptian government may be interested in doing this. These scientists were inspired by a documentary- "Green Gold" - that showed that China did just that in a desert within their country. I have seen a similar documentary on Netflix but I don't recall it's name. Can you imagine if the greening of the desert in the Sanaii succeeds, what the very wealthy Middle Eastern nations might do to the terrible deserts they inhabit?
There is another wonderful documentary on Netflix named "Kiss the Ground" that shows smaller projects in the U.S. about returning desertified land back to lush agriculture with green farming practices. Very worth seeing.
A second idea is about an economic way to reduce the production of carbon by covering the 1500+ miles of Calilfornia aqueducts that transport northern california water south to the rest of California. Cover the aqueducts with floating solar panels. This, of course, produces non carbon producing power during the day, and it also reduces the evaporation of water from these extensive canals. Pretty deeply researched project and I hope it moves forward.
I read a third article about the development of plasma jet engines to fly our airplanes - using a generated electromagnetic field to create a plasma that propels the jet.
Not all of us are environmental scientists. Not all of us are green power engineers. But all of us can and do dream of reversing the desertification of the planet. We can all dream of environmentally supportive power generation. We can all dream of the human race waking up to the reality that the environment, that nature, that wild forests and jungles, and rivers, and oceans are as essential to our human survival as strong economies and functioning beneficial governments and industries.
I am pretty sure of one thing: the smartest kids in MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cal Tech, England, France, India and all around the world are dreaming of coming up with magnificent breakthroughs in green energy, environmental restoration, carbon capture, energy storage, etc. etc. etc. They are not wasting their time dreaming of developing more environmental damage.
We dream, they make it real. By our dreaming it, we become much more accepting of the changes that the new science will produce.
