What if Everyone Did Something to Slow Climate Change? Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adopt
What if Everyone Did Something to Slow Climate Change? Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adopt
Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adopt them.
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@UsernameHere @capital one of the ways I contribute as an individual is by not giving my money to BP.
What’s more realistic? Getting billions of people to change or a few dozen companies to change?
Fossil fuel companies have spent a lot of money making the world dependent on them. Some of us may have the luxury of not giving them money but the majority cannot.
Fossil fuel companies know that. That is why they paid a marketing team to shift the responsibility onto the consumer.
I mean what can I do? I can vote with my vote and my money, or I can do nothing. I'm not going to do nothing.
One vote matters about as much as one person's carbon emissions. As much as possible, I'm going to contribute to the solution, with urgency.
If I were alone, it wouldn't matter. Luckily I'm not alone, and I'm contributing to the momentum, as much as my privilege allows.
I’m not saying don’t make personal changes.
I am saying it is impossible to fix the problem with individual change and fossil fuel companies know that.
And we can prove that they have paid marketing companies to convince the public that the impossible solution is the one we should choose.
The only viable solution is for a small fraction of the individuals to force change by creating political and legal pressure for systemic change.
All change is individual change, big change is lots of individual change bundled together.
Vote, protest, make climate-conscious life choices, give your money to corporations and organizations that are helping. Do all of that as much as you are able, which is different for everyone.
Voting is important, but so is the rest of it. Do it all.
Sure, do it all.
But know that the fossil fuel industry is paying marketing companies to convince individuals that their carbon footprint matters. Because it benefits them to do so.
It does matter. It's just not the only thing that matters.
Don’t tell me. Tell the fossil fuel industry and their marketing firms.
They are the ones that disagree with you.