WLA: Restoring Our Sponge Planet - A Water-Centric Solution to Climate Change
A recently published paper in Nature Water, authored by Kongjian Yu, Erica Gies, and Warren W. Wood, advocates for restoring our “Sponge Planet.” The article, titled To Solve Climate Change, We Need to Restore Our Sponge Planet, discusses an approach to tackling climate change by emphasising the importance of the water cycle. The authors argue, “Climate strategies focus primarily on carbon, largely ignoring the destabilized water cycle that’s amplifying disasters and accelerating climate change." Instead, the authors advocate for the Sponge Planet model, which emphasises restoring natural water systems to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
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