How to Address the Climate Emergency:
The necessary steps that no American political party is willing even to propose
The climate emergency is existential -- it threatens our very existence. To address it, we will require the following measures.
First, fossil-fuels must become prohibitively expensive, so that producers and consumers who use them will find less expensive substitutes. Only a stiff carbon tax and stiff carbon tariffs can ensure this necessary outcome. (Most other tariffs should scrapped.) Nor should there be a carbon market (cap-and-trade). Just impose a tax that renders fossil fuels unaffordable.
Second, fossil-fuels must be replaced by renewable energy so far as possible and by nuclear energy so far as necessary, until we can truly develop nuclear fusion, which would offer unlimited, safe energy. France and Sweden both recognize that renewables and nuclear are the only way out of this crisis.
Third, we must fund and subsidize carbon removal. That means planting forests, urban gardens, and parks everywhere possible AND also using new technologies to sequester carbon and remove it from the atmosphere. Otherwise, we will fail to address global climate-disruption on time.
Fourth, so far as possible, people should work remotely and cease the daily commute and "business travel."
Fifth, we must largely switch from industrial agriculture to local, farm-to-market agriculture.
We need a political party that will champion these issues, not make the climate emergency even worse (the GOP) or waffle this way and that and accomplish virtually nothing (our feckless Democrats).