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1) If you have to buy an electric vehicle. 2) Go vegetarian. (Avoid beef if you can't and eat meat less). 3) Stop buying stuff. 4) Repair not replace. 5) Mo
by awjr 10y ago
1) If you have to buy an electric vehicle.
2) Go vegetarian. (Avoid beef if you can't and eat meat less).
3) Stop buying stuff.
4) Repair not replace.
5) Move to an urban environment.
6) Consider going car free. (Walk, Bike, Public Transport, Car clubs).
7) Stop flying.
8) Avoid plastic packaging, or at least any product in packaging that cannot be locally recycled. (Here in the UK I have no idea why we allow food to be supplied in black plastic which most councils do not recycle).
9) If you have to have children, just have one. Choose schools they can walk/bike to.
10) Insulate (cheap) and solar (expensive) your home.
11) Buy local goods.
12) Join recycling groups https://www.freecycle.org/ https://www.freecycle.org/
- dagss 10y ago0) Vote for politicians who care about climate change.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoReminder: 2018 US congress midterms are approaching
- tradersam 10y agoIn a year and a half. Approaching, but not immediate unfortunately.
- the_economist 10y agoI haven't seen many politicians campaigning for nuclear power, and you can't deal with CO2 emissions without that (base load problem, etc), so that's pretty hard to do.
- dagss 10y agoFirst step is just agreeing there is a problem and put it on top of the agenda though. Politicians are supposed to set goals and find incentives; the "how" part (batteries vs. hydro vs. new tech for power storage vs. nuclear) can be more up to the market. A politician who is scared of climate change will at least be easier to convince to approve a new nuclear plant in (relative) silence even if they are not actively campaigning on it as a solution. And properly taxing emissions will make nuclear plants more competitive, again without a politician having to explicitly aim for it or campaign for it.
- diafygi 10y ago0) Work for a cleantech company. The thing many people here don't realize is that they can make real money fighting climate change. See my other comment in this thread for links to the major conferences with lists of cleantech companies that are hiring.
- ohbecause 10y ago5) Move to an urban environment Are you serious? If I go and buy an acre of land (or many acres, more likely) and grow my own food, keep a few animals, and trade with my neighbours, how the hell does "move to an urban environment" make me suddenly more efficient? So I can rely on the supply chain to get all the goods that I could get by walking down the street to another farm?
- ohbecause 10y agoWhy is this being downvoted?
- JBReefer 10y agoBecause there's not 7.5 billion acres of arable land that's also got good, stable water access. Also, because someone living in a major city produces dramatically less carbon due to economies of scale, and your idea would result in an incredibly low density, offsetting any gains to food shipping cost.
- detaro 10y agoThat's also an option, but most people living outside core urban areas don't do that, and adopting such a lifestyle probably is the harder choice for many. Instead, they drive a lot, because everything (stores, work) is far away, and the infrastructure created for them is relatively inefficient. Very few people and regions are supplied locally, and not by large-scale, large-distance supply chains, rural or urban.
- exergy 10y agoIF you can buy an acre, please definitely do so. That will do more to help than almost anything else. On the other hand, the typical 2.5 kid family in Suburbia that drives even to the grocery store? They're better off moving to the city.
- baddox 10y agoI would be quite surprised if growing your own food at small scale is more environmentally friendly than living in an urban area and consuming food that was produced and transported at massive scale.
- avip 10y ago9.5) don't have pets.
- stinkytaco 10y agoThis list should be called "things upper-middle class people can do about climate change." It's all good advice, but so few people can do these things. Either the cost, time, or economic reality stand in the way of productive solutions. Because of this, climate change is an international political problem, one that will require so many unpopular solutions that I'm extremely pessimistic about the outcome.
- madengr 10y ago13) Kill yourself, preferably in a place where you will decompose into top soil.
- Banthum 10y agoRegarding 9), if you're reading this you should have as many children as possible. Your high-IQ genes will be passed on to them; only the intelligent of the next generation will have the foresight and technical ability to develop real (technological) solutions to environmental problems. It's pretty well-demonstrated that the moralistic approach to climate change, where you harangue people into recycling or biking or whatever, doesn't work. It's just trimming around the edges, leaving the core 95% of the problem untouched. People won't give up their lifestyles, and in the case of poor third-worlders it's hard to ask them to do that anyway. If climate change is stopped, it'll be by technological solutions. There's <10% of the world population who will be endowed with the genetic gifts to participate in this process of technical solution-making. Your kids will be among them. Make some kids.
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- jcoffland 10y agoIt's troubling that you believe your genetics are responsible for economic success and education.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIQ is strongly hereditary and is pretty well correlated with economic success, so I don't see how this is troubling...
- jcoffland 10y ago> IQ is strongly hereditary and is pretty well correlated with economic success Can you back up these claims? I don't think either is obviously true. IQ tests themselves have dubious value.
- TeMPOraL 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ https://pumpkinperson.com/2016/02/11/the-incredible-correlation-between-iq-income/ https://pumpkinperson.com/2016/02/11/the-incredible-correlat...