Every action you take first creates emissions. Doing nothing often seems to be the safest way to reduce your own emissions. This gives you a good feeling that y

Every action you take first creates emissions. Doing nothing often seems to be the safest way to reduce your own emissions. This gives you a good feeling that you are at least not part of the problem. An open source / open science strategy at least prevents greenwashing and allows to at least focus on measures that actually save emissions. However, as long as the systemic / economic problem behind climate change is not solved, someone else will simply create the emissions for you. Find more about this under the term "Climate Shadow": https://www.mic.com/impact/forget-your-carbon-footprint-lets-talk-about-your-climate-shadow https://www.mic.com/impact/forget-your-carbon-footprint-lets....