The biggest impact you can have is reducing your consumption of goods. Making purchases last longer, skipping upgrade cycles, and in general having less.
Less manufacturing, less packaging, less shipping, less employees making goods commuting to work etc etc. However; that doesn’t really fit in with our current global economic survival strategy. Yes, less red meat is very important too, for the world as a whole.
I’m of the mind set of every bit helps, but it’s absurd the burden is always laid upon the individual and not those actively profiting from the destruction of the environment.
You are missing the most important thing you can do, vote! At least if you are living in a country with a working democracy. Show those in power that this is an important topic to their constituency. Sure, personal decisions can make a small difference, but a lot of the big issues are systemic and need political power to change.
Yes exactly, people fail to realise that the lifestyle us people in western countries live is completely unsustainable and if we want to even have a shred of hope against climate change everyone needs to drastically change the way they live in ways like only taking a plane once a year, only eating meat once a week keeping your phone for 5 years etc. This all ofcourse also includes the super rich who fly their private jets everyday. Our luxurious lifestyle is not possible to live without causing climate change.
I pretty much stopped driving entirely. I ride my bike, walk, or take the bus whenever I can. I’m probably going to sell my car. Been eating less red meat too but I need to cut it out entirely. Sucks because I love a good steak but it’s not worth the damage.
That is excellent, in Florida, public transit is so poor taking a bus is literally not even a viable option. It can take hours to get even 15 miles away lol. I do WFH frequently now which has reduced my commute to only a couple days per week.
Reduction is a really impactful thing to do for the reasons you’ve outlined, though “a vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use”, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date comparing the impact of food production. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325532198_Reducing_food’s_environmental_impacts_through_producers_and_consumers
The biggest impact you can have is reducing your consumption of goods. Making purchases last longer, skipping upgrade cycles, and in general having less.
Less manufacturing, less packaging, less shipping, less employees making goods commuting to work etc etc. However; that doesn’t really fit in with our current global economic survival strategy. Yes, less red meat is very important too, for the world as a whole.
I’m of the mind set of every bit helps, but it’s absurd the burden is always laid upon the individual and not those actively profiting from the destruction of the environment.
You are missing the most important thing you can do, vote! At least if you are living in a country with a working democracy. Show those in power that this is an important topic to their constituency. Sure, personal decisions can make a small difference, but a lot of the big issues are systemic and need political power to change.
Yes exactly, people fail to realise that the lifestyle us people in western countries live is completely unsustainable and if we want to even have a shred of hope against climate change everyone needs to drastically change the way they live in ways like only taking a plane once a year, only eating meat once a week keeping your phone for 5 years etc. This all ofcourse also includes the super rich who fly their private jets everyday. Our luxurious lifestyle is not possible to live without causing climate change.
I pretty much stopped driving entirely. I ride my bike, walk, or take the bus whenever I can. I’m probably going to sell my car. Been eating less red meat too but I need to cut it out entirely. Sucks because I love a good steak but it’s not worth the damage.
That is excellent, in Florida, public transit is so poor taking a bus is literally not even a viable option. It can take hours to get even 15 miles away lol. I do WFH frequently now which has reduced my commute to only a couple days per week.
Reduction is a really impactful thing to do for the reasons you’ve outlined, though “a vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use”, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date comparing the impact of food production. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325532198_Reducing_food’s_environmental_impacts_through_producers_and_consumers
I do vote… I am also in the U.S. where many people are brainwashed.