Story of Survival — Content, Post 2

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The Consortium
In 2025 a prodigy and 19-year-old  MIT graduate, Mr. Wong, began a mailing list / online forum called The Consortium.  The Consortium attempted to find the most promising avenues of reducing global warming.  In the first 6 months they narrowed their scope to:

1) Reducing global emissions
2) Increasing global sequestering of airborne carbon
3) Engineering "C-DIY" ways to combat overheating
4) Engineering "C-DIY" ways to combat food shortages arising due to extreme heat and crop death
5) Engineering "C-DIY" ways to conserve water

Consortium Do It Yourself Projects

Consortium - Do It Yourself Projects, or "C-DIY" for short, were Consortium solutions to particular global warming related problems with the following constraints including the reasons (as given by The Consortium):

1) no factories needed to be built.
    this meant a preference for common materials and a preference for home-made solutions
2) low carbon footprint
    components and materials must not create more pollution than they prevent
3) affordable
    the most helpful solutions should be ones third-world countries could still use
4) all steps required non-toxic and environmentally friendly substances
    again, home-made solutions needed to have safe processes

The general guidelines for a CDIY project:

1) The materials were relatively inexpensive and the materials were easily accessible.
2) The end result must be relatively long-lasting.
3) The process could be completed at home by most adults in most living situations.
4) All steps included only reactants and products which were environmentally friendly and non-toxic.

Reducing carbon emissions
Early on there was a decision made that all humans with enough space in their household should grow food at home.  This severely decreased the carbon footprint of food.

1) Residents didn't need to go to the grocery store and back.
2) Food need not be shipped to the grocery store from its places of growth / processing.
3) Supplies needed to grow food were, in a large part, no longer needed.
4) Food wrapping is less necessary or unnecessary
5) The buildings and other resources related to the intermediate steps were no longer needed

In addition:

5) Food costs a lot.
6) Gas to drive to the stores is pricey.
7) Going to the store is time-consuming.
5 & 6 could save money meaning more to donate to, for example, non-profits championing planting trees!

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There Ya Go!