2. All volunteers should be informed with a basic understanding of the current climate change and runaway global heating emergency and the benefits of fixing it

If you have not read about these things already, there are four essential things needed for volunteers to have a basic understanding of the runaway global heating emergency so they can speak to others about this emergency confidently:

a. One must understand the current climate situation as described on this critical climate facts page. This illustrated page and its deeper science verification links are all you need to know about climate change and the runaway global heating emergency to start and sound like a climate expert or scientist.

b. It is even more essential to understand the many benefits you will help create when we get this climate nightmare fixed. When you know what you are working for and not just what you are trying to prevent, you are far more likely to stay motivated when things are not going well. Click here to read the global heating benefits page. It is the most-read page on our website, with over 2 million views. 

c. Additionally, one should also understand why government, media, and the climate reports of many environmental and climate groups are underestimated by about 20-40%. This underestimation factor means the climate predictions the media are stating about how bad the climate will be in the future are:

1. about 20 to 40% less than they will be, and,

2. they will arrive about 20 to 40% sooner than the media tells you. 

This underestimation factor is a great climate conversation opener because so few people know about something that will be so important to their future. Furthermore, if you do not actively educate others about this underestimation and why it is happening, they will keep believing the grossly underestimated climate summary reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change spread by the media worldwide. Then, falsely thinking they are safe and there is little real urgency because of the underestimated media, they will do little to nothing to help fix our accelerating global heating emergency.

(Click here to read all about how and why this ongoing government, media, and environmental and other climate groups serious underestimation happens and continues.)

d. All volunteers would be well served also to understand why we use particular climate change-related language at Job One. There is real power in using the most concise terms when discussing climate change and runaway global heating. This page will help you speak about the climate change subject with words that will most accurately state our current climate situation and help create the most consequential changes.

 

3. Regularly share your successes, suggestions, and problems with us for several reasons and other important miscellaneous items.

Because almost all of our self-organizing volunteers are working remotely and independently online around the world, unless you share your challenges or problems with us, we will not be aware of them so that we can bring our experience and knowledge to help you. Additionally, unless you regularly share your successes with us, other volunteers will not benefit from your wisdom and experience in their projects.

Please stay in regular touch with us with wins or problems by emailing us at ([email protected]) whenever you need help or have done something wonderful so we can share it with other volunteers.

 

3A. Some important basics for success

1. We strongly recommend that you refer people to our ClimateSafe Villages website in your educational efforts.

The reason is simple. ClimateSafe Villages is meant to get people started by giving them the support they need no matter where they are in the world. 

At ClimateSafe Villages, they present the complex climate change information found on the Job One website in a simple and digestible way. They also have a unique discussion forum for new people to get one-on-one care and answers to the many questions common to new people starting to face and manage the climate change emergency.

If you want people you tell about the climate change emergency to be well cared for at their current "getting started" level, always send them to sign up at ClimateSafe Villages first. ClimateSafe Villages will send them to the appropriate Job One for Humanity think tank information on the climate change emergency when they are ready for it.

2. Our materials and minors, both under 13 and from 13 -16 years old

Our educational materials are not meant for any adolescents under 13 years old because of their severe and adult nature. Please allow children under 13 to be children, and do not force them to deal with such an upsetting adult matter they have virtually no power to change. 

If your audience is 13-16 years old, do not focus on the consequences of the worst effects of the coming climate change. Let them have a happier and more carefree life that all younger individuals should enjoy. Be responsible in your educational efforts. There have been suicides by young people who heard the worst news about climate change, felt hopeless, and took their own lives. 

With children 13-16, always focus on hope, and we still have time to work together, prepare, and fix climate change. Be sure to also focus on the many benefits humanity will experience on this page as we progress in resolving the climate change nightmare.

3. Public Protest Actions and the law

Our organization is absolutely against all physical violence, illegal—or violent revolution. We only endorse peaceful protest and civil disobedience that would make Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela proud.

If you choose to get involved in any climate protest or other protest actions, be sure to first read this page and then read this page on necessary climate disruption and civil disobedience. 

 

4. Critical Legal information for ALL Job One for Humanity volunteers 

Please click this link to review our legal section issues for all volunteers. This section also includes special legal information if you get involved in protest actions. The areas covered in the volunteer legal section are:

1. Our logo and website materials: How to correctly use and copy materials on our website for your local use

2. Volunteers are not legal agents or executives of Job One for Humanity

3. You do not make or change Job One for Humanity's organizational public policy

4. You choose your own actions

5. You are solely responsible for any materials you may submit or post on our website

6. Confidential Job One for Humanity materials that you cannot share

7. Illegal or violent actions

8. All volunteer positions start with a 90-day provisional status. Shortly after the 90-day mark of your active project volunteering, we will usually review our actions to see that the relationship is mutually beneficial. We will check back with you if necessary.

 

Here are some nice-to-have areas to eventually familiarize yourself with if you want to make volunteering as enjoyable and successful as possible

1. Why our volunteers do not waste their valuable time and effort trying to educate or convince certain types of individuals

Here are some tips on who you should contact first and share our information:

a. Individuals of above-average intelligence that already know the climate change emergency is real and may have already been affected financially or otherwise.

b. Prudent, mentally strong, and mature individuals you know who plan their future over the next 1 to 5 years or longer. These are the same kind of individuals who buy insurance, create college funds for their children while they are young, and take reasonable precautions in their daily activities. These prudent individuals will take the time to read about a serious potential threat that could significantly disrupt their lives and futures.

c. Individuals you know whose lives seem stable, running well, and not being battered by one personal or business disaster after another.

Here are some tips on who not to contact and waste your time:

Do not waste your valuable time and effort trying to educate or convince certain types of individuals:

a. climate deniers, climate trolls, individuals without open minds, or those with a hidden (or transparent) vested financial interest in the profits of the fossil fuel industry or fossil fuel economy,

b. those who do not or will not invest the time to carefully read the science or have the time to think deeply about what they have read, whose lives are in constant chaos, and who are too distracted to do anything but cope with the endless problems that are facing them on a day-to-day basis. They have no undistracted time and energy to deal with something so large and upsetting.

c. Those who are mentally unstable or highly anxious and stressed out. The truth about our climate change emergency is so upsetting that these individuals should be bypassed at this time because it would make their lives that much more difficult knowing what is on our website.

d. Anyone whose job depends upon or profits from the fossil fuel industry continuing as it is. Mark Twain, the famous US humorist, says this far better than we do. "It's hard to teach a person something whose job depends upon not knowing it."

e. Do not give this information to children and young teens under 16 without an adult modifying it so they can still be children, have a happy future, and not fear adult matters they can do little to fix. This is an adult problem; please keep it that way.

f. those who do not have the intellectual sharpness to grasp even the central easier ideas of the vast complexity of the climate system and its subsystems. (The average IQ of individuals in the world today is 100.) Unfortunately, the true complexity of the climate change emergency is significantly beyond those with 100 IQs or lower. Understanding the climate emergency's true threat level requires an above-average IQ.

The Job One for Humanity nonprofit organization is not here to convince people in one-on-one online or offline debates that we are in a runaway global heating extinction emergency! Instead, we provide honest climate data and analysis on our website, allowing individuals to read and think about that information privately and carefully in the comfort of their homes. Once they have done so, reasonable individuals will make their own decisions about the dangers and reality of the runaway global heating emergency.

There is no time left to waste on individuals or organizations that will only suck up immeasurable amounts of your time and deny climate realities or do nothing. The individuals mentioned above seldom, if ever, change their minds about the runaway global heating emergency. In fact, if they can't figure out the right climate facts by quietly reading and evaluating our extensive website information, it is not likely that any amount of educating or convincing that you do will ever make any difference whatsoever. 

After 12 years of dealing with such individuals, we have found that the best policy is to simply ignore them and not try to involve them. We discovered that almost all of them have never even read much climate science or the information on our website. They simply hold onto their prior climate opinions before engaging with us, no matter what climate science we send them to read and evaluate for themselves.

We have also discovered that some of these kinds of individuals will nearly completely ignore discussing substantive climate science or its details and merits in the posting or article. Instead, they will focus most of their negative comments or wild and unfounded attacks on the individual posting or responding personality.

We also do not spend additional time educating another type of individual We do not waste time with any individuals who psychologically or emotionally are incapable of accepting any idea that humanity could soon go near-totally extinct because of the well-documented consequences of rising runaway global heating.

This runaway global heating extinction idea creates so much psychological and emotional stress within them that accepting the possibility that runaway global heating extinction could be real would emotionally or psychologically seriously destabilize them and their lives so much that they must reject the concept of runaway global heating-driven extinction at all costs! They will suffer the pain and tension of unreconcilable cognitive dissonance if they do not reject the reality of a possible or coming runaway global heating extinction. Do not engage with this kind of individual for their health and well-being should you meet them.

And finally, the biggest underlying reason we ask our volunteers and team members not to spend time educating or convincing the individuals named above is that we are honestly almost out of time to prevent a runaway global heating-driven extinction. We do not have enough time left to spend on some types of individuals when, we could and should be working with those individuals who are ready, have the mental bandwidth, and I've already done some deep thinking about the issue.

But, the good news here is that there are many reasons, open, intelligent, internally secure, and mature enough individuals who are willing to read, think for themselves, and then decide upon the merits of the climate facts they have discovered, no matter how bad those facts might be. 

Spend your time with them, and we have a chance to save up to 50% of humanity. We are in the 11th hour. At best, we have another 3-9 years (from 2025-2031) to prevent a near-total human extinction event.

Never forget that Job One for Humanity is racing to put out a REAL fire. As the Job One for Humanity fire engine rolls by, some will not like its color, and others will say the siren is too loud or the fire engine is going too fast. When racing to a real fire and emergency, you certainly don't stop dealing with such things of far lesser importance; you continue racing to your destination and extinguish the fire.

2. It is wise for volunteers to understand the difference between prioritized, effective critical path Runaway Global Heating actions that meet key extinction prevention deadlines and simple climate change progress. 

You will hear lots of people and environmental claim we are making climate progress, but that progress is not necessarily what is critically needed to meet extinction-preventing climate change deadlines.

Many things are being done by climate and environmental groups worldwide that can and should be honored as climate change and runaway global heating progress. Unfortunately, we have so little time left to save ourselves from the extinction of the surviving post-2050 half of humanity; we must now focus only on those prioritized, truly effective critical path climate actions that will successfully achieve crucial extinction-prevention deadlines and save, at least, that part of humanity. Unfortunately, these effective prioritized, critical path climate actions are also the most difficult.

To create a climate change critical path action plan, one must first know the most critical deadline and the point where climate change and runaway global heating actually go beyond our control for centuries to millennia. Unfortunately, many climate activists and environmental organizations do not honestly know where this critical climate change survival deadline is! 

Consequently, they develop climate change action programs that do not fit the true urgency of our emergency. Many climate and environmental groups are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic instead of simply steering away from the looming iceberg. They do not have their climate change humanity-saving priorities right.

Fortunately, this critical climate change deadline is known and available here, so they can quickly correct this once attention is called to this additional critical 10-fact information.

If climate and environmental education and action organizations do not shift their mission tactics away from the many feel-good, off-critical path actions that produce minor climate progress, we cannot save the surviving half of humanity post-2050, and humanity is in deep trouble. 

Therefore, if you see any climate and environmental organizations focusing on many feel-good, off-critical path climate progress minor steps designed (often to keep members motivated and donating), it is necessary to disrupt them and these activities.

With these climate and environmental organizations, start with our climate educational tactics first! Let them see the correct climate extinction deadline we must work toward. Then, many will change strategies once they see their minor climate progress actions in the light of "all hands on deck" for the rapidly approaching runaway global heating extinction and points of no return. Many will also begin to work on critical path actions like those found in Part Four and Part Three of the Job One Climate and Runaway Global Heating Solutions and Resilience Plan. 

We do not have the luxury with so little time remaining (2025-2031) to soothe ourselves with bits and pieces of "feel good" off-deadline and off-critical path minor and deck chair rearranging climate progress. Instead, we must be entirely focused on the effective remaining prioritized critical path actions that can and will save about half of humanity from extinction by 2050 and before it is too late!

That being said, it is balanced and wise to know that ongoing individual actions in reducing fossil fuel use are also essential to save as much of humanity as possible. In many areas of our website, we have emphasized our government's critical first and primary role as being the most effective and necessary tool to enforce the required 2025 global fossil fuel reductions. While that is a true priority to save half of humanity post-2050, there is also an essential role for the ongoing growing individual-driven fossil fuel reductions that are off the critical path that you do see many environmental organizations promoting.

While individual fossil fuel reductions by hundreds of millions of us are presently too little and too late to save about half of humanity before about 2050, they can still and hopefully will play an important role in what remaining percentage of humanity survives post-2050. After humanity has hit the climate change catastrophe "rock bottom" described here, the net result of our steadily accumulating individual fossil fuel reduction actions could make just enough difference so that as much as 30% of humanity will survive after 2050. If individual fossil fuel reduction actions do not continue to grow and grow significantly, as few as five percent or less of humanity may survive until about 2070. These numbers illuminate the important role of individual actions in reducing fossil fuel use for our post-2050 future.

Click here to see your needed individual fossil fuel use reduction actions.

 

3. Additional important volunteer information

Here are a few additional things all volunteers should be aware of:

1. Climate Justice requires that all volunteers also do their best to get the uncensored Job One for Humanity climate analysis and facts to those living in poor and undeveloped countries. In general, the poor and undeveloped countries have done the least to create the runaway global heating extinction emergency. Yet, they will usually be the first to experience the worst of the runaway global heating consequences. 

If you speak languages other than English, please translate our materials and videos as best as possible with link backs to the original materials. If you are from a non-English speaking country, consider becoming your nation's global heating educational leader.

All people from all nations must be equally allowed to survive the coming extinction of almost half of humanity by mid-century. Climate justice demands that no special consideration be given to wealthy individuals or developed nations when managing the global runaway global heating extinction emergency --- especially because developed wealthy nations have done the most by far to create this nightmare.

2. None of the Job One main office volunteers work on weekends or holidays unless they choose to. Having time away from such challenging and vital volunteer work is essential. This means that our volunteer team only replies to emails within 1-2 non-holiday business days.

3. Our volunteer team managers will strive to make your volunteer work as fun, engaging, and meaningful as possible while we all bring our combined talents to resolving the runaway global heating extinction emergency.

4. Click here for help setting up your local climate education group with our Join-A-Hub ally.

 

4. Our strongly recommended first project for all new volunteers.

Please see our most updated volunteer projects list by clicking here.

 

 

 

5. How to wisely start any project that you choose

The Job One for Humanity organization is a climate think tank at its core. Our job is to analyze current and past climate research. 

We publish our climate analysis and recommendations on our website. But, the organization has not been set up to distribute this information or enact the recommendations for fixing the runaway global heating extinction emergency. Instead, we rely 100% upon our volunteers and the website's many members and subscribers to share this climate information. Consequently, when you volunteer at Job One for Humanity, you are the one who must be the one to plan and execute whatever project you have selected for yourself. 

The following are a few tips it will help you get your first and subsequent projects rolling successfully:

1. After choosing the project you want to work on, plan out how you would like to achieve it and your goals for that project. 

2. You will need creativity and persistence on your chosen projects to get around climate change ignorance and the normal resistance to change.

3. Keep your project goals humble initially to build success momentum.

4. Once you've completed your planning stage, consider the resources you will need, particularly other human resources. We strongly recommend that if you have friends, family, or business associates in your local area, invite them to join you in your project. Having others working with you ner your location improves the meaningful satisfaction and enjoyment you can experience doing any project.

Also, having others involved will provide essential additional support for you when things aren't going well and you are trudging through the everyday resistance to change. Extensive research has shown that being in a supportive network can be up to 90% of the reasons people successfully achieve some goal.

5. Go into action on your project. As you progress on your goals, please take a moment to recognize those accomplishments and share those accomplishments with others locally and with us at Job One for Humanity.

6. When things get tough or bogged down, remember to return to this benefits page to help you restore and renew your motivation and persistence. This challenge also is an excellent time to bring your support team together to help brainstorm and renew your motivation and support.

7. Always celebrate and share your successes with us, and we will share them with other volunteers in the network.

 

6. Become the change you want to see in the world

Making personal progress on your chosen Job One Plan B steps is also essential. This action will help you better understand what we must go through to fix the climate and make you an example of what you are educating others about. 

Remember, you do not have to be perfect. Just make some progress regularly on the changes we need to make as described in the Job One, Plan B. Making progress on Job One, Plan B will also keep you and yours safer while you do this great work for yourself and the world.

Click here for how to get started with your Job One Plan B. 

7. About How Job One for Humanity does it's climate analysis and projections

Volunteers should know a bit about the organization in which they are volunteering.

Job One for Humanity, founded in 2008, is a non-profit and independent climate change think tank that provides a "big picture" holistic view and analysis of the inter-connected and inter-dependent climate systems creating our current climate change emergency.

While we do not do in-house original climate research, we use the published research papers of independent and respected climate scientists and climate research from organizations like the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA.) 

Many climate research papers and summary materials reviewed or used by this organization in its analysis, prediction, or recommendations are also found listed:

1. in this extensive but still partial master list of these related or relevant climate research papers and summaries.
2. in many available video presentations by the climate scientists or researchers describing their own research. Click here to see an example in the video of the renowned climate scientist Kevin Anderson presenting the climate emergency at Oxford.
3. in the body of many of our web pages, in the links on those pages, or in the end notes or technical notes found at the end of many pages.

We provide our climate and global heating educational information for individuals and organizations with the understanding that they will independently evaluate it and decide upon its usefulness and accuracy based on the best climate science and analysis currently available.

As an organization, we speak climate truth to power, and we always treat our visitors and members as adults who can often process painful facts. We also candidly speak climate truth to power because there is no time left to hide or sugar-cote the facts surrounding the runaway global heating emergency.

Our website pages offer an appropriate, proportional, and rational hope that we can still fix the climate and save humanity from the climate's worst possible extinction possibilities. We base this measured hope solely upon current climate science and advanced dialectical metasystemic analysis processes. 

We are the only non-profit think tank telling the whole and unvarnished truth on how bad the runaway global warming extinction emergency will become and preparing individuals, businesses, and nations for the unavoidable, soon-arriving climate and global heating consequences.

All the runaway global heating and climate change remedial actions we recommend are provided on a self-motivated, self-organized, and self-directed, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) basis. Although we will answer climate questions and provide encouragement through our member support system, you are responsible for spreading the word and telling others about this website's climate information and tools. Responsibility for the preparations, adaptations, and global heating remedial actions necessary to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your business from what is coming remains exclusively with you, but we will do our best to help with useful information.

 

 

8. How Our Research, Review, and Dialectical Meta-Systemic Analysis Processes are Unique 

Volunteers should know a little bit about how we do climate and global warming analyses.

Using the principles of system theory and dialectical meta-systemic thinking applied to the climate and global warming as a complex adaptive system composed of many systems and subsystems (ocean temperature and acidification, forests, soils, atmosphere, glaciers, sea ice, and ice shelves, ocean currents and the jet stream, tundra, and snowpack conditions), we review and then analyze current and past climate change research and public climate summaries for:

1. errors, 

2. omissions, 

3. previously unrecognized positive connections or negative patterns in or between climate studies and the climate's systems and subsystems,

4. unseen interconnections or consequence connections within and between climate studies and the climate's systems and subsystems,

5. the unseen or hidden politicization, censorship, or the watering down of climate science by governmental agencies or other types of agents or lobbyists in public climate summary reports. 

The problems in 1-5 above can significantly affect the validity of current and future statements or positions concerning climate consequence timetables or the frequency, severity, and scale of climate consequences. Using system theory and dialectical metasystemic thinking applied to the climate as a complex adaptive system, we also review research papers and public statements on the climate for:

1. discernable or hidden biases, and

2. undeclared financial or other conflicts of interest.

The above two problems have become more prevalent and have resulted in significantly underestimated negative climate consequences in public climate summaries and statements. Climate think tanks, individuals or groups operating as unknown fossil fuel lobbyists, and climate researchers funded by the fossil fuel-related industries have become the biggest offenders in this area. 

Instead of our analyzing only one area of specialized climate studies like the oceans, glaciers, ice and snow packs, planetary temperature history, water vapor, soils, forests, or greenhouse gas factors on temperature and the atmosphere, we analyze climate research on how it holistically applies and interrelates to all different areas within and between the climate's interrelated, interconnected, and interdependent systems and subsystems. 

Using the tools of dialectical metasystemic thinking, we examine climate studies, their positions, and the related interactions of the climate system and subsystems through 28 different dialectical analysis perspectives and lenses. This allows us also to see, consider and value natural or human counteractions that may occur in response to the various primary and secondary consequences of climate change and global heating.

After that extensive analysis, we make climate consequence severity, time frame predictions, and remedial recommendations for the correct global fossil fuel reduction amount to minimize human loss and suffering. Our final analysis, forecasts, and recommendations always include all needed adjustments to compensate for any problems, errors, omissions, underestimation, or politicization which we discover in current climate research or summaries. Click here to see the many errors, underestimations, and politicization we found in a major recognized source of global climate research and recommendations. 

Unlike many other climate change think tanks, we do provide prioritized, critical-path, and deadline-driven solutions to the climate change emergency. These solutions are based upon accurate global fossil fuel reduction targets and avoiding the most dangerous climate tipping points and climate feedbacks deadlines that we currently face. 

Job One for Humanity is helping expose climate science's current intense politicization. This intense politicization of science by the media, governments, and even the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) acts to critically underestimate our actual and current climate consequences, timeframes, remedies, and condition.

Unexpectedly, our independent climate change analysis has turned us into reluctant whistleblowers exposing how popular and politicized climate data has been distorted to serve the hidden interests of those who gain financially (or in other ways) from the ongoing global use of fossil fuels and hiding the real danger the public faces from the runaway global heating extinction emergency.

Please note that our education materials, because of their serious and adult nature, are not meant for adolescents under 16!

Our Advisory Board

 

9. About the Mission and Goals of Job One for Humanity

Click here to see our current mission and goals.