Review the mitigation strategies described in Section 17.7. Which seven would you choose t...

Review the mitigation strategies described in Section 17.7. Which seven would you choose to add to represent the stabilization wedges in Figure 17.20? Why are these seven the best choices to prevent the most severe future warming?

Figure 17.20 Possible carbon emissions through the midcentury. If emissions do not increase, they would follow the “flat path.” However, at current trends, it is more likely that we will follow the “emissionsdoubling path.” The difference in carbon emissions for these two scenarios is represented by the stabilization triangle. Scientists Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala have suggested that it is useful to divide the triangle into a series of seven stabilization wedges and to pursue a variety of carbon mitigation strategies that could each account for all or part of a wedge, representing 25 gigatonnes of carbon over the time until 2055.