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How to Solve Climate Change

Discover the causes, systems, obstacles, and a portfolio of solutions for solving one of the greatest challenges our world faces: climate change.

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Brandon Stover
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Brandon Stover
Founder of Plato University
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Course Overview

Learn to solve one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. In this course you’ll use systems thinking to understand the causes, systems, and obstacles underlying the climate change challenge and discover a portfolio of possible solutions. Explore our easy-to-understand, science-backed lessons featuring global experts in climate research, policy, technology, and beyond, with actionable advice and practical skills you can learn to start taking action right away without being a scientist!

What You Will Learn

  • Learn about climate, carbon cycles, ecosystems, and ways humans are disrupting them
  • Discover the main contributing sectors to the climate change problem
  • Understand hidden obstacles like carbon lock-in, the green premium, and population
  • What policies and technology need developed to solve climate change
  • Climate solutions in energy, agriculture, carbon sinks, engineering, and economics
  • How to use systems thinking
  • Working with stakeholders and foretelling consequences of solutions
  • Skills and careers available to those passionate about solving climate change

What You Will Achieve

Understand the systems and root causes of climate change

Be exposed to the leading solutions already being implemented

Develop a plan using systems thinking for contributing to existing solutions or creating new ones

Who is This Course For

  • You're overwhelmed by conflicting information on climate change
  • You're tired of only hearing about the problem instead of how we can solve it
  • You feel passionate about helping to solve climate change
  • You want practical skills, knowledge, and resources to support your climate education journey

What This is Course About

Overwhelmed by climate change?

Are you like the majority of people who feel that as a result of climate change, humanity is doomed?

You feel angry, powerless, and — above all — afraid about what the future may hold.

Climate change matters so much… 

It’s one of the few issues that has obvious potential to affect our world for generations to come.

Understanding Climate Change Shouldn't Be So Complicated

So – what does science say?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report is, to our knowledge, the most authoritative and comprehensive source on climate change. 

The report is clear: climate change will be hugely destructive. We’ll see floods, famines, fires, and droughts — and the world’s poorest people will be affected the most.

So yes, climate change is scary. And people are right to be angry that too little is being done.

But we’re not powerless.

And we’re far from doomed.

Hear Solutions From World Leading Experts in Climate Change

To successfully solve this challenge, we must work on all aspects of the climate equation—stopping sources and supporting carbon sinks as well as helping society achieve broader transformations.

We’ve brought together leaders in climate science to break down these complex topics into manageable pieces, so you can feel confident in understanding solutions and ways you can contribute!

You’ll hear from:

  • Judith Curry
  • Pierre Friedlingstein
  • Megan Wolff 
  • Eric Corey Freed
  • Daniel Kammen
  • Max Åhman
  • Navin Ramankutty
  • Benjamin Sovacool
  • Karen Hardee
  • Daniel A. Farber
  • Chris Wedding
  • Genevieve Cullen
  • Ravi S. Gajendran
  • Chuck Kutscher
  • Malcolm Woolf
  • Roland Horne
  • Joshua Rhodes
  • David Leon
  • Gabe Brown
  • Rattan Lal
  • Christine Picard
  • Daniel Pauly
  • Sass Brown
  • Kate O'Neill
  • Merritt Dailey
  • Paula Ehrlich
  • William Moomaw 
  • Nancy Knowlton
  • Nivi Achanta
  • Michael P. Vandenbergh
  • Daniele Visioni

Best of all, every expert will give actionable advice and practical skills you can learn to start taking action right away.

Learn. Get inspired. Take Action.

If you're looking to understand the climate change problem fully and feel passionate about taking action, then this course is for you.

The How to Solve Climate Change course is a 60 day program in which you’ll use systems thinking to understand the causes, systems, and obstacles underlying the climate change challenge and discover a portfolio of possible solutions. 

Explore our easy-to-understand, science-backed lessons featuring global experts in climate research, policy, technology, and beyond, so you can begin taking action today.

You need zero prior experience to take the course — everything you need to know is explained step-by-step in this training program.

One of the best parts of this course (and all Plato University courses) is that you won't be learning alone.

By enrolling for FREE today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community of dedicated lifelong learners. You'll get to learn and grow alongside passionate learners and ask questions of instructors.

And you will also get worksheets, exercises, extra resources, and most importantly, the tools necessary to actually implement what you'll learn.

It’s time to take action and help solve this global challenge. Be the hero of your own journey and let’s save the world together.

We can show how. Join us.

Don't Just Take My Word For It

Chase Morris
Chase Morris
UX Motion Designer @ UX in Motion

"Coming into the Plato community gave me the accountability, made what I wanted to accomplish completely achievable, and also it was just completely fun."

Courtney Laschkewitsch
Courtney Laschkewitsch
Open Innovation Product Developer

Holy cow. Brandon is the real deal. I've taken many many courses on many platforms from others, and I will have to say, when I took his Podcast Course, it was one of the best courses, material, and set up I have ever seen. No fluff, no wasting your time, actionable reachable SMART steps necessary to help you learn the skill and succeed. We need more people with the skills Brandon has!

Harrison Goldstein
Harrison Goldstein
Product & Partnerships @ Tradable Bits, Host of First Act Podcast

"I came to Brandon through his course on how to start your own podcast. Brandon's episodes stood out to me by how well organized they were. His ideas are clearly articulated and he breaks down exactly how to understand your target audience. Brandon is smart, approachable, friendly, and helpful. Highly recommend!"

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Section One:

Problem

Section Two:

Systems

Section Three:

Causes

Section Four:

Obstacles

Section Five:

Why

Section Six:

Solutions

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Meet Your Learning Facilitator

Brandon Stover

Brandon Stover

Founder of Plato University

Brandon is the Founder of Plato University, where you can get a personalized education built around your passions, highly in-demand, real world skills, and the impact you want to make. Being a poor kid from the trailer park living in a broken home, he knows the power of education to transform ones life. But after chasing education's promise of a golden ticket, he graduated with a degree in a career he was not passionate about or felt would make a real difference in the world. Ultimately he had no meaning, impact, or sense of purpose in his life. Since then, he's surrounded himself with and learned from dozens of social entrepreneurs making a difference in the world, built half a decade of experience as a designer, marketer, and educator for mission driven companies, and built educational programs that have reached over 80,000 people.

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How It Works

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10-20 min. Lesson

Short, daily lessons to easily understand concepts step by step until they are mastered.

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Project Activity

Each lesson has project activities that can be completed in under 1 hour.

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Extra Resources

Extra resources, coaching, & community questions to help you go deeper.

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