Climate ABC is not an open-ended mission. It's a phased deployment plan with a deadline, a budget, and outcomes that can be checked — not just promised.
If we say five years, we mean five years. The point of putting dates and dollar figures on a public page is so anyone — including us — can check whether we did what we said.
Full-scale deployment of Arctic ice and reflectivity restoration material across the largest viable area of the Arctic, funded by a dedicated global fundraising campaign.
Estimated cost: roughly $1–1.5 billion in materials (originally scoped at $1B in 2015 dollars, adjusted for inflation). All deployment is planned around existing shipping and drilling lanes, to avoid disrupting current industry activity and to reduce a major source of potential opposition before it starts.
Phase B begins as soon as Phase A deployment is underway, not after it finishes. Free-market transportation alternatives — better commuting options, lower-cost mobility, reduced time and money spent on the road — are funded through a public campaign where people sponsor the specific local projects they want to see.
Campaign concept (name not yet finalized): a place where individuals can directly fund the transportation improvements that would make their own daily life better — and lower their own transportation and energy costs — not an abstract climate ask.
China's phase moves deliberately, both because it follows Phases A and B and because the Arctic's restored reflectivity provides some additional cooling benefit to the region as it ramps up. The aim is to deploy already-identified clean energy financing approaches as fast as conditions allow, in partnership with a dedicated public campaign.
Working name: Clean Air China — built for people in China who want cleaner air for their families and are willing to support the programs already lined up to deliver it.
A number like this sounds enormous until it's placed next to other things the world has already paid for — including problems we solved.
The US war effort against fascism cost roughly $4–4.7 trillion in today's dollars — over 3,000 times the size of the entire Arctic deployment budget. Civilization has paid vastly larger sums to fight far less tractable problems.
The Multilateral Fund that helped phase out ozone-depleting chemicals worldwide under the Montreal Protocol has disbursed a few billion dollars total since the 1990s — and it's widely considered the most successful environmental treaty in history.
Figures are independently sourced estimates, included for scale and context rather than as a precise apples-to-apples comparison.
Two dedicated fundraising and sponsorship platforms, each tied to one phase of the plan. Neither is live yet — both are part of what Climate ABC is building toward.
Lets people sponsor the specific transportation projects they want for their own community — framed around freedom of movement and lower personal transportation/energy costs, with emissions reduction as the result rather than the pitch.
A way for people in China to directly support the clean energy deployment programs already identified — built around the universal appeal of breathing cleaner air.
Figures and timelines here are working estimates based on current research and will be refined publicly as deployment plans firm up — not quietly revised without explanation.