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Voting is obviously the most important thing.

Here are things we do that I think are pretty low impact on us—

Buy less crap. Reuse or remake stuff you have. You don’t need to redo your house decor every few years.

Electric or hybrid cars. We got solar panels that cover our car charging. We also use bus/metro to get to work, and have done that for most of our 30 year working career. I really don’t know why more people don’t get solar panels — if you finance them they are basically free, as they use the savings from electric to pay off the panel price.

Compost and try to eat local to extent reasonably feasible. I was shocked when I saw how much food waste contributes to climate change.

We can’t cut plane travel entirely, or don’t want to, but I do consider the impact of travel. If I can do a work meeting remotely rather than flying, I will, and I’m starting to encourage clients just to hire local people where possible. We could afford to go to Europe basically whenever but have only done it four times in twenty five years, and have never been to Asia or Africa.

But I know there are other things we do that are not great — I can’t cut meat and dairy entirely, and we have a big dog which is probably terrible for the environment with what he eats plus the additional a/c just to keep him comfortable. We all have to make choices about what we feel like we can do and can’t do without going a little crazy. We also give money to places that preserve large forest areas, trying to keep some areas that will eat up the carbon naturally.

Solar panels take almost two decades to break even in our region. And that ignores lost gains from the money tied up in them.[/quote]

When (and not if) the price of electricity increases, it will not take two decades. Those data centers are not going to decrease electricity prices. 
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We broke even in seven. [/quote]

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