get an energy audit. Recycle. If you can, buy a hybrid car. When you can, walk or ride a bicycle. Where you can, use light rail & mass transit. Some solutions are attempts to overcome individual change resistance, such as: Tell your parents not to ruin the world that you will live in. If you are a parent, join with your children to save the world they will live in. Vote for leaders who pledge to solve this crisis. Write to congress. If they don't listen, run for congress. Speak up in your community. However none of the 27 solutions deal with overcoming systemic change resistance. Overcoming systemic change resistance Efforts here are sparse because environmentalism is currently not oriented toward treating systemic change resistance as a distinct and separate problem to solve. On how to specifically overcome the change resistance subproblem, Markvart examined two leading theories that seemed to offer insight into change resistance, Panarchy theory and New Institutionalism, and concluded that: "...neither theory devotes significant attention to understanding the dynamics of resilient and resistant but inefficient and/or unproductive institutional and ecological systems. Overall, more research is required...." Taking a root cause analysis and system dynamics modeling approach, Harich carefully defined the three characteristics of a root cause and then found a main systemic root cause for both the change resistance and proper coupling subproblems. Several sample solution elements for resolving the root causes were suggested. The point was made that the exact solution policies chosen do not matter nearly as much as finding the correct systemic root causes. Once these are found, how to resolve them is relatively obvious because once a root cause is found by structural modeling, the high leverage point for resolving it follows easily. Solutions may then push on specific structural points in the social system, which due to careful modeling will have fairly predictable effects. This reaffirms the work of Donella Meadows, as expressed in her classic essay on Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. The final page stated that: "The higher the leverage point, the more the system will resist changing it." Here Meadows refers to the leverage point for resolving the proper coupling subproblem rather than the leverage point for overcoming change resistance. This is because the current focus of environmentalism is on proper coupling. However, if the leverage points associated with the root causes of change resistance exist