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I at least am! Since the scale of the problem became clear around 2012: First the big one: * Politically support the Greens (GroenLinks), switching from the c
by radicalbyte 7y ago
I at least am! Since the scale of the problem became clear around 2012:
First the big one:
* Politically support the Greens (GroenLinks), switching from the center-center/right parties (D66 or VVD if you google).
Then the smaller things:
* I've rejected a number of contracts the last two years which required significant travel or were for the fossil industry. I'd be $200k richer if I accepted one or two of them. Climate wasn't the only reason (young kids and father in law with cancer/stroke who needed my help played a part too).
* I haven't flown in 5-6 years (I live in the NL, my family in UK so this is a sacrifice). This is hard because travel is a passion of mine.
* I cycle everywhere whenever possible.
* I drive a tiny car and haven't upgraded it yet for environmental reasons.
* I've drastically cut my meat intake especially of beef.
* I'm spending $100k on my new house making it as close to 0 carbon as possible.
* Generally repairing instead of replacing stuff as much as possible.
Once I'm back to billing hours I'll be repaying my and my partner's climate debt by funding projects which remove carbon from the atmosphere. Only the "gold standard" projects, not the $10 clearly fraudulent "offsets" that the airlines try to sell you.
What are you doing?
- antisthenes 7y agoI was growing up in poverty for the first 50% of my life.