If I may make my second OP - and its about climate change.

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30. Make sure that women have education and career prospects

...along with general access to contraception. This is mainly a social issue, but feminism could help save us... assuming it can regain some of its integrity.

The current business culture has proven itself both too corrupt and too chicken to responsibly handle a renewal of current nuclear energy capacity-- never mind the massive expansion the nuclear lobby had in mind. Plus, the existence of nuclear (and coal and gas) tends to advance the interests of oligarchs... centralized power generation translates into a power disparity in our society (this is partly reflected in how costs become wildly inflated once a community has committed to building nuclear plants). Finally, the existence of nuclear engenders paranoia with a resulting expansion of police state powers... terrorism becomes more potentially terrifying if nuclear materials might be involved, so every nook and cranny of our lives must be scrutinized in a nuclear economy (and this itself becomes a vast expenditure of resources). Nuclear will not play a very large role.

The solution will be a combination of renewable energy (which is gaining a real foothold even here in the US) and movement away from suburbia toward true urban environments with their efficient features (ability to walk & bike, public transport, dwellings that are easier to heat, etc.). These are current trends in the US. Refashioning of select suburban areas into more urban environs with walkable, narrower and even some car-free streets is an interesting possibility that would certainly help.

California and Germany have created financial incentives to develop and deploy electricity storage capacity (compressed air turbines, flow batteries, pumped hydropower, etc.) and industry is starting to deliver. Storage will become necessary once renewables reach beyond 40% of total electricity generation. The electric car plays a role in this as well by raising the economy of scale for battery production and creating a kind of actual battery capacity (which just happens to be on wheels).

There are also some geoengineering proposals that seem to be low-risk: Seeding clouds with sea water to make them brighter, biochar to store carbon in the soil while making it more drought resistant... are a couple of good examples. (IMO, putting sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere is not a good example.. it might create acid rain and more deforestation is not something we need).

Changes in diet are necessary too: Less meat (esp. beef) and more veg. I have beef about twice a year, and lean toward chicken when I have meat. There is a movement started by Paul McCartney called Meatless Monday... one vegetarian day per week.

On the financial end, we need to get corporate 'globalization' and runaway Finance under control and institute a "carbon tax" (actually greenhouse gas tax) to partially replace income tax to make sure that all of the above solutions get reflected in each person's day to day monetary transactions. This is very important, because an economic "race to the bottom" is also a race toward high greenhouse gas emissions.

BTW, you can always drop in at the Environment & Energy forum to discuss this stuff.