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Serious question: what are you doing on an individual level to help?

undersuit 3y ago
That's the problem. One person can't make a difference. I bike to work and walk to the grocery store. I've reduced my meat and processed food intake(stop shipping preserved foods to me from across the country please). I recycle. I attempt to avoid plastic packaging. All my light fixtures use LED bulbs and I'm pretty good at turning off the lights when I leave a room. I keep the thermostat at 60 in winter and use heating blankets to keep me warm if I'm resting. I have an A/C window unit that is set to 80 in the summer, if I close the office door I only need to cool down 80sqft of me and my computer. I hope to switch to a electric or push mower, but I'm keeping my gas powered lawn mower that came with the house to avoid excess waste, I go weeks between mowing and I never water the lawn explicitly, only my trees; a pine that blocks most of the midday sun until the middle of summer, and a box elder maple the blocks the worst of the summer evening light. I turn off my computers at night, even the computer at the work office I remote into. I sew the holes in my clothes. I repair my dog's toys, OK the dogs are a huge negative on my footprint, but they're rescues at least.
sph 3y ago
Rant on the internet to convince people mainstream politics are a fucking scam, and it is not worth any of your time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism It's not much, but it's honest work. But every American has become so passionate about politics, they are infecting the whole world with their blue-v-red bullshit, and single-handedly keeping the charade alive. Even kids, who should strive for idealism or just ignore that game for old men, are nowadays eager to fit themselves into those two neat boxes. It's a disgrace. To answer you directly: whatever I am doing and is in my power to do, is too small to move the needle one way or the other. I eat steak, but it's from organic farms. I enjoy motorsports, but I do not own a car. I'm probably not carbon-negative, but my contribution is towards the bottom of the scale.

That's the problem. One person can't make a difference. I bike to work and walk to the grocery store. I've reduced my meat and processed food intake(stop shipping preserved foods to me from across the country please). I recycle. I attempt to avoid plastic packaging. All my light fixtures use LED bulbs and I'm pretty good at turning off the lights when I leave a room. I keep the thermostat at 60 in winter and use heating blankets to keep me warm if I'm resting. I have an A/C window unit that is set to 80 in the summer, if I close the office door I only need to cool down 80sqft of me and my computer. I hope to switch to a electric or push mower, but I'm keeping my gas powered lawn mower that came with the house to avoid excess waste, I go weeks between mowing and I never water the lawn explicitly, only my trees; a pine that blocks most of the midday sun until the middle of summer, and a box elder maple the blocks the worst of the summer evening light. I turn off my computers at night, even the computer at the work office I remote into. I sew the holes in my clothes. I repair my dog's toys, OK the dogs are a huge negative on my footprint, but they're rescues at least.

sph 3y ago

Rant on the internet to convince people mainstream politics are a fucking scam, and it is not worth any of your time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism It's not much, but it's honest work. But every American has become so passionate about politics, they are infecting the whole world with their blue-v-red bullshit, and single-handedly keeping the charade alive. Even kids, who should strive for idealism or just ignore that game for old men, are nowadays eager to fit themselves into those two neat boxes. It's a disgrace. To answer you directly: whatever I am doing and is in my power to do, is too small to move the needle one way or the other. I eat steak, but it's from organic farms. I enjoy motorsports, but I do not own a car. I'm probably not carbon-negative, but my contribution is towards the bottom of the scale.