This month is the planet's hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say | CNN
This month is the planet's hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say | CNN
Scientists from two global climate authorities are reporting before July has even ended that this month will be the planet’s hottest on record by far.
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the best things as an individual you can do to fight climate change:
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walk everywhere or catch public transport. Don't drive.
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Go vegan
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Don't have kids
Actually the best things you can do are
1: join a climate lobbying group (I joined this non-partisan group : https://citizensclimatelobby.org/)
2: contact your congressperson and tell them you support carbon tax and dividend
3: contact your congressperson and tell them you support raising taxes to subsidize green investment and end fossil fuel subsidies
4: vote. Locally and federally and often. Here's why local matters: https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/it-reminds-me-of-the-hunger-games-rural-residents-complain-about-solar-farm-where-cincinnati-buys-power
Any "you stuff" is way after the above in terms of efficacy.
Your first suggestion is not possible for a significant percentage of people, from a US perspective. The infrastructure is not there for public transport. Walking to your job everyday is a foolish suggestion, for anyone not within a reasonable mileage of their home.
- Remember that no matter what you do, as long as you don't try to stop corporate polluting, you might as well just be doing it for morality, not for the planet's biodiversity.
Just vote and protest.
No matter how much corporations and governments want us to believe that we're at fault, our contribution to the problem is negligent in comparison with oil companies and huge manufacturers. You can't tell someone not to have kids without even mentioning the real problem out there.
I'm 18 and will never want kids for moral reasons, it's cruel to bring children into a world that is doomed. If I were to want kids I'd adopt.
Yup. Adoption is the only way I'd have a kid, but I can barely look after myself, so it wouldn't be fair to a kid to put that on them.
How about stopping other individual from doing some things? Else this strategy is self-defeating, those survive who will not follow it. Writing a comment about it actually counts for conviencing others, but should this fact be one of the points?
It's sad how quick you're being downvoted. The attitude online is such a defeatist, we can't do anything vibe. Give them an enemy to blame and they'll happily grumble about how powerless they are and how unfair it all is, tacitly giving themselves excuses not to change their own behaviours.
Having done a LOT of vegan activism over the years, there's one thing that always sticks out. People don't think they have any power to do anything about injustices. Not just animal injustices, but anything. At all. People will just roll over and take it up the arse pipe. Regardless how badly they're being treated, and what is being done to them. People are so defeatist. It's sad. as individuals, we have a lot of power when done collectively.
The hard part is assembling the collective. This fact is exploited and even actively made more difficult by the rich.
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