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Whatever is in your power to do. As drastic as you can possibly handle. Your personal impact is relevant - i.e. find a way to drive less or not at all (move cl
by kennywinker 5y ago
Whatever is in your power to do. As drastic as you can possibly handle.
Your personal impact is relevant - i.e. find a way to drive less or not at all (move closer to work, buy an e-bike), divest any investments you have in fossil fuel companies (index funds are a particularly hard one), switch your banking to a credit union (major banks fund many fossil fuel ventures).
But more important than you personal impact, is the group-impact you can have. Anything that impacts your communities choices, or economies of scale. I.e. don't just move closer to work and buy an e-bike - tell your friends about it, convince them to do it to. Then go to city council meetings and demand better cycling infrastructure. Vote and donate to political candidates who are committed to climate action - ignore the presidential race and do this at a local level where you can have a much bigger impact. Switch your home off fracked methane and onto electric, every customer the gas company loses, the worse the economies of scale are.
If you have influence or power over stuff at work, look for opportunities there - a good and simple one is pushing back against efforts to return to the office.
For everybody the actions are going to be different, maybe none of the things I listed are things you can do, that's ok as long as you figure out what the things you can do are and do them. Some people will be able to shoulder more than others. The only wrong move here is to do nothing because of despair or because it's someone else's problem to work out.