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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are ways to mitigate climate change. First up, stop mowing your lawn so frequently (or at all). Stop using herbicide, anything with "cide" in it. Tear up that Mosquito Joe contract!! Replace your lawn with native plants and create a pollinator garden. (Call Miss Utility first though!) Insects are under threat everywhere and they support the whole food chain. A truly interesting read is Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson. He's in the UK but much of it is relevant to the US. (And he does advocate voting for the Green party, but as PP pointed out, that could backfire in the US.) Plant more trees. Even with a small yard, there are lots of native trees that are smaller. Farming practices need to change throughout the US. Still, if homeowners throughout the US convert from grass yards to biodiversity we could start a negative feedback loop against climate change. Don't sit around being discouraged. Do what you can, start now.[/quote]
Yes, all of this. We can always take our power back and mitigate disaster.[/quote]

All of you who truly believe we can as a society and civilization do the above are dreaming.  It's just too easy to live our lives in convenience and status quo.

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The BEST we can hope for is to look for solutions to help ourselves survive when we are all faced with everything gone to hell.  Honestly, I love how people just want to keep running into the wall.  Everyone talks a great game of change, but when you find out exactly how much you will need to change and everyone at the same time needs to change, there is no way that is going to happen.  If it could happen, it would have already happened.  I don't know why people won't face the reality that it's a matter of time before our time actually runs out and it's likely a lot shorter than 30 years.  But we can use all our money, intelligence and creativity to figure out what our plan is to move forward given the new reality facing us.  That my friends would be akin to saving the world - because we would in fact be saving ourselves.

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No, what the PP above suggested is actually an enormous change that would 1) begin to mitigate climate change and 2) would begin to mitigate habitat fragmentation.

Do we need to address many, many other sources of carbon pollution as well as environmental pollution? Absolutely. Is this a concrete thing that can make an actual difference and will help bury carbon vs releasing it? Yes. [/quote]

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