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What You Can Do To Change Climate Change
We are in the midst of an existential crisis. Our planet is undergoing dramatic climate changes, created by humans, which threaten our existence.
Fossil fuel exhaust now in the atmosphere is a big part of the problem. It traps heat, warming Earth’s atmosphere. It contributes to what scientists refer to as positive feedback loops that are harmful to life on our planet and may, in the near future, become irreversible.
Each of us must do more to be part of the solution to climate change and less of the cause of climate change. It’s time we up our game and become energy and impact net zero citizens. We must each lighten our carbon and energy footprints on this overstressed planet.
We can make choices every day that lighten our individual carbon footprint:
Use less electricity, gas, water and petroleum products, including plastics.
Choose the clean energy options offered on your utility accounts.
Compost. Plant trees. Eat fewer animal products. Eat more organically and locally-grown plants
Drive and fly less. Bicycle and walk more. Use public transportation.
Purchase fuel-efficient vehicles.
Encourage elected officials to impose a carbon fee and dividend.
Working together, our collective actions will make an impact now, when we need it most.
“There are so many things we can do starting with talking about climate change, even when it’s uncomfortable … Vote for the people who are the bravest, who have the courage to step up and do the right thing.”
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s, humans have put lots of carbon in the air and cut down lots of trees. This has significantly impacted Earth’s climates, resources, biodiversity, and extreme weather events.
Scientific evidence indicates that human activities like the burning of fossil fuels have recently led to 17 of the 18 warmest years on record. Ice is one of the casualties. Glaciers are retreating. Greenland and Antarctica are each losing no less than 36 cubic miles of ice every year. The melt has a global affect, already harming communities and wildlife.
Many things in nature are out of our control and can’t be changed. But human impact can be changed. Each one of us can help … by reducing our carbon footprint. Taking action now is smarter than waiting until costly, irreversible climate change happens.
We need to act to preserve Earth’s precious ice. Taking action now is smarter than waiting until costly, irreversible climate change happens.
Here are some excellent resources for more information on how you can help change climate change.
Citizens Climate Lobby: Empowering everyday people to work together on climate change solutions. Their supporters are organized in more than 400 local chapters across the United States. Together they’re building support in Congress for a national bipartisan solution to climate change.
Osterberg Lab For Ice, Climate and Pollution, Dartmouth College - Climate scientist Erich Osterberg, Dartmouth College points out that 2,000 elephants charging into the ocean every second would equal the amount of ice melting into the oceans from Greenland. That’s 250 billion tons of ice lost from Greenland every year.
Environmental Defense Fund is one of the world’s leading environmental organizations.
The Sierra Club Foundation promotes climate solutions, conservation, and movement building through a powerful combination of strategic philanthropy and grassroots advocacy. The Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of Sierra Club’s charitable environmental programs.
Union of Concerned Scientists uses science to make change happen. They are experts and everyday people, fighting for change together.
Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.
Quakers and Climate Change: Many Quakers worldwide view climate change as a peace and justice concern. They seek to transform the human activities which feed environmental crises unprecedented in human history, including the rate of species extinction, ocean acidification, soil erosion, chemical pollution and the rate of rising global temperature. Many Quakers view these crises as symptoms of a broken relationship with the Earth. In turn, they seek to live with hope and love, to live more sustainably and fairly in cherishing Creation.
The Natural Resources Defense Council: Defending our air, water, communities, and wild places requires more than a single voice.
Earth Justice: The lawyers for the environment.
350.org stands up to the fossil fuel industry to stop all new coal, oil and gas projects and build clean energy for all.
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions: Building common ground for practical climate solutions. From the local to the global, teaming up with policymakers, businesses and other stakeholders to meet our critical climate and energy challenges.
Getting to Zero is the most ambitious effort in human history. Every year, humans add 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. If we’re going to avoid a climate disaster, we have to get from 51 billion to zero in just 30 years.
Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown® is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Stopping global warming is possible with solutions that exist today.
With over 200 businesses, cities, and countries committed to 100% clean, renewable energy, momentum is building. The Solutions Project is here to support that momentum and accelerate the transition to clean energy for all. They honor clean energy leaders, invest in promising solutions, and build relationships between unlikely allies.
The Nature Conservancy: Conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. Every acre they protect, every river mile restored, every species brought back from the brink, begins with you. Your support will help make a lasting difference around the world in 79 countries and territories.
The mission of Green America is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. They help people in their roles as consumers, investors, business owners, homeowners, community activists, teachers, people of faith, children and parents, to take both personal and collective action that promotes positive social and environmental progress.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
Yale Program on Climate Change: Conducting scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior, and the underlying psychological, cultural, and political factors that influence them. They engage the public in climate change science and solutions, in partnership with governments, media organizations, companies, and civil society, and with a daily, national radio program, Yale Climate Connections.
Global Warming Policy Foundation
Fire Drill Fridays: Joining Greta Thunberg, Jane Fonda and many others to stand up for climate action.
The Earth Institute of Columbia University: Columbia’s Earth Institute blends research in the physical and social sciences, education and practical solutions to help guide the world onto a path toward sustainability.
Real Climate: A one stop link for resources that people can use to get up to speed on the issue of climate change.
Planet Ark: Positive environmental actions for everyone
Environmental News Network has a mission to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.
World Wildlife Federation views climate change as is perhaps the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Conservation International protects the nature we all rely on for food, fresh water and livelihoods.
Audubon Society urges Congress to support climate solutions.
Friends of the Earth fight for a more healthy and just world. They speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. They organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of our economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.
Climate.org: Instrumental in moving climate change onto the international agenda, fostering collaboration between developing countries and richer nations, and in launching and implementing pioneering studies and initiatives on subjects such as environmental refugees, transforming the energy infrastructure of small island states, and catalyzing policymaker focus on the necessity of limiting emissions of black carbon and other short-lived climate forcers.
Save Our Environment is a national coalition for the environment and a collaborative effort of the nation’s most influential environmental advocacy organizations harnessing the power of the internet to increase public awareness and activism on today’s most important environmental issues.
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