What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view
What are the most powerful climate actions you can take? The expert view
Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls
Fucking vote.
Reminder that Trump repealed 112 environmental regulations in one term. Over a decade of legislation lost, that will take over a decade to reenact.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html
Sabotage oil and gas infrastructure?
And animal agriculture
Have to be careful on this one as you don't want to cause more harm than good. Make sure it's all focused on disabling pumps and valves while not increasing the likelihood of releases.
Some idiots would go around blowing things up causing massive environmental damage when what we really want to do is just leave the stuff in the tanks it's already in, or in the ground it's already in.
Exclusively working from home since 2018 so I cut out 10 un-necessary driving trips a week. x2 since my wife is WFH now too.
Installed solar panels to run the house during the day, so our working hours are fully solar powered.
I guess that's all we can do for now.
If you're looking for other things to do:
- vote to address climate change (some people can only really vote to reduce the damage done slightly)
- Reduce meat consumption (doesn't even have to be zero meat)
- Reduce flying Regardless, thanks for driving less, and helping the cause!
Vote
Voting is great, but lobbying, gerrymandering and PACs can subvert the democratic process. Historically, this is where protests have shown to be helpful.
The most powerful action? Make our politicians start investing heavily in bicycle infrastructure and public transportation infrastructure.
This car culture is insane
The best thing you can do to help the climate? Kill a billionaire.
Best legal thing? Idk... Vote I guess?
We need to go back to a 90% or higher tax rate on income over some threshold, and fix the loopholes that let wealthy people have income that doesn't count as income. Especially the "take a loan and pay that back and all the activity there doesn't count as income for tax purposes" bullshit.
And tax corporate profits more, and make a corporate tax system that rewards real R&D (while auditing to prevent fake tax shelter R&D), rewards higher employee salaries and better benefits (instead of taxing those), and rewards infrastructure investments like new factories but also investments in efficiency, water use reduction, etc.
Personal vehicles are the largest single source of emissions in the US.
If only denser housing structures and public transportation and work from home didn't all keep getting voted down and shouted down by NIMBYs so we had a better way. I get out and vote and write letters to elected officials. Not much more many of us can do.
wow, didn't think that was the case, but based on 2021's numbers, its true. Transportation from vehicles, including personal vehicles, accounts for 29% of emissions. This is the largest source, right above electricity generation (25%). Thought transportation would be top 3 but that something else would overtake it. source
First thing to come to mind is: Voting. Wherever you are.
EDIT: Wow, guess i am not alone with that,
@Nyfure@kbin.social @Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
Voting is a witchcraft mind-spell ritual in which the victim thinks his wish gives him power.
Transportation pales in comparison to heating and cooling homes and businesses. The single greatest thing we can do to reduce climate change from a policy standpoint involves reducing that. From work at home, to multi family zoning, to converting business skyscrapers into living space, to increasing efficiency and fossil fuels from energy production. And all that does a lot to improve transportation environmental costs as well.