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years. We need to create a national policy to seriously address climate change and global warming but also implement long term changes on how to significantly reduce carbon and methane emissions. The international community needs to develop a non-governmental consortium consisting of scientists, activists, and policymakers to oversee governments’ climate policies, since the politicians think too short term. This consortium must identify key issues and advocate a specific policy with a campaign that has emotional appeal. The consortium would use letters and petitions and get millions of signatures, so that then the politicians will surely want to join in the movement. This consortium must develop a powerful, persuasive message that can be tied to a specific action or change in policy. Strict guidelines must be implemented, and those who don’t abide by them will be subject to high penalty fines and sanctions. By appealing to the public, it would &R