[Coral-List] Combating the Climate Crisis

[Matt Nolan]

Here is a potential solution.

Set up a competing conference that covers the exact same topics at the
exact same time as the ICRS conference.

Map out the potential attendees.

Determine a set of regional locations where one set of the conference
topics will be streamed from and made available by video conferencing.

Organize the locations so one just has several consecutive marathon days of
sessions.

if you have two consecutive 6 or 8 hours sessions in one day. Two days in a
row. Three days at most.

You have deincentivised anyone making a long trip for one maybe two night
overnight stay at some distant location.

Do some analytics to make sure you didn't increase # number of shorter
flights as you may have more attendees.

Really compete on price the first year.   Start with some lower fixed cost
per attendee to start.  Assume a fixed amount of dollars to be taken from
off-site attendees.  Offer rebates to off-site attendees if when then fixed
dollar amount desired is achieved  rebate/kickback = surplus / # off-site
subscriptions.








On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 10:16 AM Chelsie Counsell via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> It is crazy that we've been talking about increasing remote access to coral
> reef research meetings for at least 20 years - kudos to Mark Spalding for
> making this part of the conversation then and reminding us all now. A small
> team of us has been working to set up globally interconnected local
> meetings
> for Coral Reef Week this July. Check out our website, coralreefweek.org to
> find a meeting near you or to get in touch with us about organizing a
> meeting in your location.
>
>
>
> Also, can we please stop fighting about what path is the best for combating
> the climate crisis? Because we didn't take action decades ago when climate
> scientists were presenting the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions to
> congress, we are now in an alarming position of needing unprecedented
> societal change. For the future of this planet and everything on it, we
> need to do everything we can, as much as we can.
>
>
> I agree with Luis that we should vote and do all we can to encourage
> regulatory change. We should also eat vegan diets, bike to work / carpool /
> use public transit, and work to not be the continuous consumers of
> manufactured products that the capitalistic market encourages us to be. We
> should also fly less. The 3% of emissions number is a really ridiculous way
> to justify our addiction to air travel since a very small proportion of the
> global population ever gets on a plane, with an even smaller proportion
> responsible for multiple long distance flights each year. The 3% disregards
> the transportation used to get to / from the airport and the massive
> infrastructure of airports. It does not include the water vapor emissions
> or the altitude at which the engine pollutants are directly placed into the
> atmosphere. Air traffic currently accounts for three times more emissions
> than the total emissions of a country like France, and it is projected to
> double by 2030. Minute per minute, air travel is the fastest way for an
> individual to contribute massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. For
> many of our personal carbon emission footprints, flying makes up a much
> larger percentage than 3% and should not be ignored as an option to cut our
> personal contributions to the climate crisis. Learn more at
> https://noflyclimatesci.org/ - check out their Resources page for lots of
> great sources.
>
> ~ ~ ><> ~ ~ ~ ><> ~ ~
> Chelsie Counsell, Ph.D.
> Quantitative Community Ecologist
> Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology
> chelsiew12 at gmail.com
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