How can individuals best support climate goals?

[Anonymous]

What do you believe are the most impactful things that we can do as individual citizens and consumers to advance climate goals?

[Anonymous]

Stop eating meat. Save $$, get healthier and help the environment.

[Anonymous]

Try to reduce fuel consumption where possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop eating meat. Save $$, get healthier and help the environment.

I already do not eat red meat or lamb, and opt for range chicken and eggs when I consume them. Is there a strong climate-related reason to drop those as well?

[Anonymous]

Since I started composing we throw away one bag of trash a week. We do have recycling too.

Think before you buy. Do you really need it? Have you checked a local buy/sell page to see if there’s a used option

Weatherize your home. Turn up your AC, turn down your heat.

Eat less meat. Have less children

[Anonymous]

Be an informed voter. Be an informed investor (I found that my generic 401k selections were heavy in anti-environmental banks and corporations). Quit buying so much crap.

[Anonymous]

Advocate for intense regulation of greenhouse gas regulation of corporations.

Our household does a lot of individual stuff (own a hybrid, install solar panels, compost, plant trees) and those things are good, but none of it is enough without government regulation of larger entities.

[Anonymous]

Carbon tax
Plastic tax
Smaller homes
Less consumption
Stop eating meat and fish.
Stop eating eggs.

[Anonymous]

I do think getting a community garden plot or having a veggie patch on your patio or in your yard is one way to lower ones individual footprint. Use your own compost. If you have the room, getting a few chickens can be helpful too as they can eat up quite a bit of the garden refuse and veggie bits from the kitchen. They are also good a debugging the yard. A beehive is great too.

[Anonymous]

Rewild your lawn for birds and pollinators. Leave leaf litter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rewild your lawn for birds and pollinators. Leave leaf litter.

The scam of the American lawn
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/video/lawn-grass-environment-history.html

[Anonymous]

It’s a PR scam to make citizens believe they are respond or climate change and that they can actually do anything about it at the individual level.

Have you seen what drilling for oil looks like?
https://www.google.com/search?q=oil+field+burning+gas&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwibxJqxr8zzAhULBKwKHXb4ArwQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=oil+field+burning+gas&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzoHCAAQsQMQQzoFCAAQgAQ6BAgAEEM6BggAEAgQHjoFCAAQzQI6BAgAEB46BQghEKsCUKIuWLVIYMJLaABwAHgAgAFOiAHMBpIBAjEzmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=s21pYdueGIuIsAX28IvgCw&bih=653&biw=1024&prmd=nimxv&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS919US919&hl=en-US#imgrc=TemsA0KoSGbqJM" border="0" class="embeddedImage" />

And
Are you aware of how much oil and gas is used/wasted by the US Military?

[Anonymous]

Op here. We do a lot on the individual level (buy less, compost, bike, hybrid car, limit meat consumption, etc.). However, I agree that these individual actions are to show that climate is a priority and to lead by example, not because I think that my family’s individual actions put a dent in total emissions.

The question I have is how do we do more? For example, what does advocacy for societal decarbonization look like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. We do a lot on the individual level (buy less, compost, bike, hybrid car, limit meat consumption, etc.). However, I agree that these individual actions are to show that climate is a priority and to lead by example, not because I think that my family’s individual actions put a dent in total emissions.

The question I have is how do we do more? For example, what does advocacy for societal decarbonization look like?

Get involved with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. It's run by a former journalist who covers climate change issues.
https://chesapeakeclimate.org/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rewild your lawn for birds and pollinators. Leave leaf litter.

That's a great one!

I think voting and advocating would be the most important. At the personal level - yeah, stop eating meat; turn your lawn into a habitat. You can also buy carbon offsets when you travel.