A few thoughts, after reading the other seven comments: How long do you care about the lives you touch, and life on earth in general, surviving? If beyond your

A few thoughts, after reading the other seven comments: How long do you care about the lives you touch, and life on earth in general, surviving? If beyond your own, lobbying those who make regulations that guide the actions of many more than you is a priority. Relates to “build relationships with your neighbors”, on a grand scale. Start, however small, increasing the carbon content of your soil (anywhere you can, ehich might be by volunteering at a community garden) by composting food waste, cardboard, paper, yard waste, etc. I’ve had good results adding my urine to our compost and diluting it with water for the garden; adds N, saves housewater. Working towards recycling poop. I also add wood ashes for the K, and am practicing how to pyrolize rather than fully combust wood scraps. Promoting the health of microbes, invertebrates, insects, birds, small mammals, on up to beaver, deer, elk, cougars, and wolves (again, depends on location; maybe the most you see more of is birds and smaller) is helpful, as these animals eat and excrete on the land. More diverse plants will help more animals get by, and eventually some sort of forest landscape (including cacti as trees in deserts) will help provide shade and food and cleaner water. In the midwestern US, returning in part to the deep roots of prairie grasses and the beaver-engineered wetlands will help buffer against extreme weather. To get to this “re-wilded” state we’ll need to reprioritize how we collectively convert energy. Want to keep burning hydrocarbons? Let’s do it in the interest of improving energy-conversion methods that don’t contribute so much to climate change. Promoting the care of people that live nearby, downwind, and downstream from chemical plants, smelters, etc. is a way to help, too. See How to Save A Planet podcast for more. See also: All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer Eager (about beavers in North America) And so many more authors trying to push for awareness and change that aligns more closely with values of stewardship and reciprocity rather than dominion and exploitation. I will die, I’m okay with that, and I care less about being remembered than about other people continuing a healthier human story for millennia to come.