Nihilitarianism

I've come to take climate change as a very serious problem, especially as I recently realised it's not just global warming, it's the disruption of weather circulation, moving rain fronts further towards the poles and out to seas. This is the real devastation that climate change will cause, worse than rising sea levels or increased temperature (which is mostly at the poles anyway). It's already turned much of California, Nigeria and Syria into desert, the latter having contributed to the rise of ISIS and Boko Haram.

I've come to the conclusion that the only way to stop climate change that governments will be amenable to is to tax cash-crops that aren't shade-grown. Most of the avoidable emissions are caused by commuting and people will do that even if it's taxed, so even though this may help a little bit it wouldn't be enough. Unfortunately, democratic governments don't have the authority to enforce the kind of measures we need, like requiring all information jobs to be done from home.

Developing countries don't want to stay poor, and if they'll go on to become as developed as the rest of the world they will also emit just as much, doubling or tripling emissions. The only reason this won't happen is that they'll turn their countries into deserts through deforestation first. The only way for them to develop in a way that's sustainable is through forestry i.e. shade-grown cash crops (coffee, cacao, tea etc). This would not only retain carbon but also moisture, in addition to keeping the cash crops cool enough for efficient photosynthesis. This could keep equatorial countries from collapsing from global warming.

Obama has repeatedly asked for input from universities in terms for crisis. Perhaps we could use the "six degrees of freedom" technique to pass this suggestion on to him. His own proposals probably won't pass the vote. I'm already sending this as an email to a large number of Stanford professors.

I've said a lot of things here and for all I know there's a lot of stupidity in it, so feel free to break down any flaws you can see in my reasoning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YyJSb-OGVU