The second service is the Network of Experts. As we build a growing list of schools, we will also build a growing network of experts in the twin fields of climate change and clean energy.
Thousands of scientists have been working for decades as part of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. These scientists, from countries around the world, have studied every aspect of climate change. Their work has been published online, available to anyone who would like to read the reports. Their most recent report, published during the autumn of 2018, warned us that we have twelve years—twelve years—to make a major transition from coal and oil to sun and wind, or we will pass serious tipping points, triggering catastrophes which we will not be able to stop or reverse.
The Network of Experts will thus include researchers at universities and climate institutes, some of whom, I hope, will be willing to respond to questions from students like you.
The Network of Experts will also include indigenous peoples from around the world, because they have lived in harmony with nature for thousands of years. These important people possess a wealth of information, and wisdom, which they might be willing to share with us. Students could perhaps work with the indigenous peoples in their various regions of the world, helping to weave them into our growing network.
As we study Climate Change: the Problem, so we must study Clean Energy: the Solution. Thus our Network of Experts will include a growing number of engineers, entrepreneurs and visionaries who work in the clean energy industry.
Students can subscribe to the excellent professional journal of clean energy, www.rechargenews.com , which publishes daily online reports as well as a monthly printed magazine. Clear, understandable articles, with great pictures, describe the progress in wind and solar energy, as well as other clean forms of energy production, in countries around the world. I call Recharge News “the Good News journal”, because you will find astonishing progress in clean energy on every continent, bringing jobs and prosperity to growing numbers of people. (Recharge News offers the first two weeks free; after that, you will need to pay for a subscription.)
My hope is that students and scientists, students and indigenous peoples, as well as students and clean energy engineers . . . can talk with each other, so that the First Global Generation in Human History becomes one of the most educated generations in human history. Your cooperation may give you a clearer idea of what you would like to study in school, and what sort of career you would like during your lifetime.
At the very least, you will build a list of friends and colleagues around the world, which might be very helpful in the development of peace on planet Earth.
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Sami experts in Arctic ecology.
(Aili Biriita and her brother Atle Johannes. Family photo.)
