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Ha! Joseph, obviously the show wasn't about actually using pedal power. It was an illustration; a metaphor.
As for Copenhagen, if it all goes to plan, we're still fucked! Even if every country really does make the changes they are proposing
Many are giving far too many years to make such changes, and none of it will be enough.
The great point you made was that regardless of "climate change" we're running out of our current form of energy.
End of.
According to most rseearchers though none of the wind, solar, or water energy producers that have so far been invented will do the job either. Plus Nuclear is still too unstable.
Many of those who have gone down the rabbit hole of energy usage and followed the numbers believe that only Nuclear Fission (not the current Fusion) will do the job to keep up our current energy use.
But the science is under funded. South Korea is the current leader in advancing it.
Combine this with the fact that this is only covering "current usage and the population of the world is not only getting bigger but the consumption is expanding as countries develop.
What is needed is a huge halt on population increases, people not only need to stop replacement level breeding but actually reduce the population by not having kids or having only one per couple.
Then "developed countries" need to fully fund the developing worlds but only fund low energy building ("LED lights-only cities, etc) and introduce sanctions on countries who are developing in non-energy efficient ways. Basically tell less-developed cities "do as I say not as I do"m
Then the so-called "developed cities" need to slow down the energy crisis by building all that water, sun and wind stuff they like to use in sound bites, while also funding nuclear energy studies (again fission not fusion). These countries also have to enforce energy limits on all their citizens.
Next public transport needs to be the norm and there needs to be no such thing as a privately owned car. Solar/electric car shares could maybe be possible.
But above all, the number one thing all humans need to do immediately is stop eating meat. This is no longer a lifestyle choice. The current meat industry is more harmful as far as carbon emissions as our military or car industries. This would halt most of the destruction of the rainforests (which of course eat carbo dioxide) and will cancel out the destruction of grazing land and the transportation of meat products and animals.
If you want an easy answer to "what can I do to slow climate change?" It's become vegetarian.