As is so often the case, the pride of having our family’s opinion piece published in the Oregonian was immediately followed by two humbling moments. Both came in the form of on-line quizzes testing my knowledge of climate change issues. Now, I’ve never claimed to be an expert on the science or economics of climate change. Still, I thought I’d have done better.
The first came to me thanks to my sister in law. It’s a quiz from Project Drawdown on which potential climate change solutions will do the most to reduce our footprint. For those of you who don’t know Drawdown, it gathers and facilitates a broad coalition of researchers, scientists, graduate students, PhDs, post-docs, policy makers, business leaders and activists to assemble and present the best available information on climate solutions in order to describe their beneficial financial, social and environmental impact over the next thirty years.
The second was a Buzzfeed quiz on which companies are doing the most to combat climate change. I’m not sure I totally buy the criteria they used to identify those top companies, but still…
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Craig B Heverly
Jim and Sara,
I consider myself pretty “up” on the climate crisis and its causes. Took the Project Drawdown quiz: 31% !!!!. I did a lot better than that on Organic Chemistry in college, which nearly destroyed me. Humbling indeed.
Love your pieces, Keep it going.
Craig