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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course those indoor options will just accelerate the problem.

I sort of feel like anyone that is not studying science to solve this is probably wasting their education.  I haven’t convinced my kids of this yet though.

I also feel like we need a major shift in societal norms.  100 years ago, it was considered totally okay to spit in the street: smoke; wear furs from endangered animals; kill elephants for their tusks; make little children work in your factories; use racist terms and openly segregate based on race…..all of these things would more or less make you a social pariah now.

When is it going to be considered social suicide to air condition your office to 68 degrees in the summer; to fly to Paris for a weekend trip; to rip out your whole kitchen and replace it because you got bored of the style; to eat cheeseburgers every day; to drive to work solo in a car daily?

I admit I do at least some of those things or am tempted to do them.  But most of them are honestly worse than wearing an ivory necklace or a tiger fur coat, ethically speaking.  I’m sounding more radical and judgmental in this post than I actually am, but I am surprised at how slow the shift in social norms has been.  [/quote]

I have a good friend who is one of the authors of the second part of the IPCC report (it hasn’t come out yet) and it’s about policy changes and things that can be done to mitigate climate change.  What she has been telling me for years is that we should do individual things to be good stewards of the Earth, but we are so far gone that the only really change can come for corporations and governments.  Not to put a damper on an already sad thread.[/quote]

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