What can I do, as an individual, to help curb climate change?

Question

I can't make massive changes as just one person but if I, and everyone else in the western world can make small changes to their lifestyle and habitat then this will surely make a big difference.

I already use energy saving lightbulbs, drive a fuel efficient car, have double glazing, remember to switch lights off when not needed.

P.S. If you don't 'believe' in climate change, the question above should read "What can I do, as an individual, to help keep my fuel bills down?"

Answer 1

Simple things such as::
recyling every thing that can be recycled,
walking instead of taking the car but if you cant walk to where you have to go then take the bus,
use both sides of the paper instead of just one,
turning of eletricls at the mains instead of leaving them on standby,
there are lots of other little things that you can do!!!

Answer 2

A big question arises as to just how much man is contributing to climate change, considering we are following normal climate cycles recorded over the past million years (Vostok ice core studies). In any case the best course of action would be to move to a remote spot in the wilderness (or woods) dig an earth sheltered home, do not use fossil fuel for heat or transportation, and grow all your own food, there you have it. But now that you’ve done all you can possibly do what happens if, after 100 years…200 years… the cycle continues and warming increases futher? Oops.

Answer 3

I believe the climate is changing and know it has been doing so for somewhat more than 4 billion years. I do not believe in all the hype about mankind's involvement and know that there is no proof of it.

At the same time, it doesn't make sense to pollute our world. Everything from not littering to recycling should be a part of your life as a matter of habit.

Oh, and if somebody could reverse the lobotomy on the first poster it would help make the world a better place. What a sick and immature answer.

Answer 4

1.limit your driving, if you have enough freedom in your life then stop driving (that would be good for YOU as well)
2.recycle, if you don't already. If there is no recycling program where you live(there isn't where I live) then really think about what you are buying and the packaging that it comes it, can you reuse the packaging in someway at least once? For me this means expanding what I home can because I can't do much with stuff that comes in tin cans I don't buy them
3. Compost.....learn about it.....do it for youself is best but if your town has a program do that.
4. garden...this gives you some power....doesn't have to cost you much money to get started(use your own compost too) and this will elimate some of the groceries you have to buy therefore less stuff needs to be transported
5. eat locally......if you live in a place...say canada like me where oranges don't grow(yet!!) eat apples...really think about how far something has to travel to get to you
6. educate yourself...spend time asking questions...surfing the net....people are finally starting to get angry about this and while I personally think that we really are doomed(money is going to win out in the end and kill us all) there is a lot of good info out there.
My belief is that we should beliving like that anyway...if we were focused on living a good life(everyone) in the first place instead of this stupifying game of who can get more stuff(sorry feel like ranting; I'll shut up)

Answer 5

performance is extra effective served by technique of having products produced the position they are regularly man made the most inexpensive and that does often propose that you're extra effective off having food produced on the different fringe of the international. for sure transportation expenditures should be factored into it as well yet we may be able to have affordable transportation (and cheap transportation does help plenty in words of reducing value, you do not choose shipping to be extreme priced). From an environmental consequences of shipping standpoint there is significant and complication-free to get room for progression in shipping (switching the ships to nuclear potential) and railroads (electrify the strains (calls for sparkling electrical energy, Sweden is doing nicely there nonetheless)) that could carry something that is not too time comfortable, air freight is a touch bit a gap marketplace compared to ships, trains and trucks inspite of the actual shown actuality that it really is going to be quite not uncomplicated to reduce the CO2 emissions from airplane because there is quite no option to kerosene (not avgas, especially a lot each little thing that contains shipment burns Jet A, avgas is in basic terms quite used for GA presently) and modern-day planes are already especially powerful devoid of quite large improvements obtainable, trucks even as they do lengthy distance shipment are likely extra effective used on shorter distances to deliver something that got here by technique of deliver, practice or airplane to the perfect destination. The decrease productiveness you will get in diverse places may likely reason extra adverse environmental consequences than starting to be food in an section it quite is outfitted to that food and then transporting it with what we've (not what we may have). As for the famines, they received't surely ensue (the bounds to boost that persons have claimed to discover for the close to destiny practice to not be limits, yet basically a lack of mind's eye, we've the technologies to go beyond the bounds that are claimed to do us in quickly, we in basic terms prefer to be allowed to apply it (once we quite choose it, that'll ensue, Sweden those days took steps to allow one among them)).

Answer 6

As john k says you can die. While breathing, men inhale oxygen and give out carbon di oxide .Global warming occurs due to excess of carbon di oxide in the atmosphere.The output of carbon di oxide from you will be zero if you die thereby curbing the climate change.

Answer 7

you an also switch your power to green power or 1/2 green power from your elctricity provider.

Answer 8

Assassinate Bush. It's the only way forward.

Answer 9

Don't put your heating on. Don't watch TV and whatever you do...Don't cook anything.

Answer 10

http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/