2023, 2024 and 2025 were hot. The three hottest years since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) started keeping track in 1850.

So can we still save the planet? If you want more than simple answers, read on for reasons to believe.

Need a refresher? Check out the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal SDG 13 “Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". 

Change Is Already Here

Sometime in the 2020s, solar became the cheapest energy on earth. Think Costco of energy, not Whole Foods. Cheap enough that:

TODAY, China already has the factory capacity to produce all the solar panels we need

EVERY DAY, new solar panels are installed that deliver the same energy as 1 coal-fired power plant

80% of energy from new US power “plants" built in 2024 came from solar

The largest US energy consumer is the federal government, and the Department of Defense uses 3/4 of it (think aircraft, ships, bases).

In 2010, they finally recognized climate change as a “threat multiplier" to national security (think foreign oil, base resilience, force readiness, water & fuel logistics).

Under the Biden administration, the US Military committed to net-zero by 2050 (think energy efficiencies, alternative fuels, electric vehicles). While the current administration has dropped this commitment, work has already started.

Climate deniers want us to keep asking: what can one person possibly do? Because it's futile.

As long as we each think individual action is the answer, it's over.

Instead, we need individual commitment to climate change. Commitment to do anything you're good at, not all the time but anytime, not everywhere but anywhere.

Make it a mindset, a lifestyle. Think, learn, speak, show, influence, lead, volunteer, vote, consume, abstain.

Above all, don't be an individual, join something. Build strength and power through community.

As long as your can find something next to do, it's never too late.

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PC cover photo: Jeffrey Eisen

“Make It Make Sense” is our way of sharing ideas that go beyond simplistic stereotypical answers to big issues, starting with the UN SDGs. Through this we hope to promote curiosity and understanding of diverse ideas.