The top 10 most effective actions by The Week
(In no particular order)
- Join an initiative at your workplace or start one yourself.
- Join a group that does activism.
- Vote for the most ambitious climate candidates at all levels over the next 10 years.
- Buy everything second-hand.
- Switch to green energy providers.
- Insulate your home.
- Choose less meat, eat more plant-based foods.
- Shift your banking and investments to benefit the environment.
- Switch to public transportation, bike or electric car.
- Stop flying (or reduce it by 80%).
Not having children is an interesting topic I'd like to know more about. Do you have any good talks or lectures about it? I mean, we are on this planet because life propagates, it's baked into the core of every living thing. I wouldn't say we have to have kids, but it's a driving force behind a lot of stuff that we do. And it is such a journey! I know kids emit co2, but to me, telling people not to have kids feels like giving up on hope and on life itself.
And I know earth is getting crowded, too. But the western world is not growing at all, other places do. So I'd say, let's make life over there better and safer, so families over there don't have to rely on children to look after them when the get old. Like Europe and the US did like a century ago.