
As some governments pull away from climate issues, others are working on solutions
Published on Jul 31
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<p>Despite efforts from some governments to slowly pull away from climate regulations and actions, one writer discovered a climate revolution through a combination of technology, science and community.</p><br/><p>“I was looking for our realistic hopes, when we're standing at an existential brink,” said Alan Weisman, author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Dies-Last-Visionary-Fighting/dp/152474669X" class="default">Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future.</a>”</p><br/><p>“Hope is an active verb, and in place after place I found things that just completely surprised me,” he said.</p><br/><p>For example, Weisman discovered a modular, wireless energy-sharing system in one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Bangladesh, where solar-powered houses connect via Wi-Fi for peer-to-peer energy exchange.</p><br/><p>“By the end of it, I was so amazed by the solutions that people were coming up with who simply refuse to quit trying,” Weisman said. ...