As a person who has recently finally understood the magnitude of climate change, I have taken just a few meaningful steps to change myself and help out with the whole thing. Whether or not I can do anything by myself, I still think that it remains to me in my moral framework to change my personal habits, which I've heard can help the situation.
Briefly, a few things; I will:
Ride my bike more often
Remain a committed vegetarian, having began from today
Shop less, and only really buy the necessities
Learn about everything I can, build resources to share with others, and work for free to install infrastructure that can help with the problem
I am talking to my family currently about changing their eating habits as well. I do firmly believe that chain reactions of action among concerned citizens can create meaningful change; this is especially true when you consider modern technology. We have to consider what our own impacts on this planet are. Plant your own gardens if you can and go outside and enjoy the outside instead of using electricity. Summer is here.
On that note, it's also time for protests, since the weather is soon becoming advantageous. Get involved and let's all pool resources and our action together to fix our country's problems.
We need to start encouraging real and meaningful action now, let's not wait. We still have time to fix things. People may have said that also decades ago when they already knew about climate change, but this is truly the do or die stage of fixing it.
On that note, any valuable input for discussion would help me and others tremendously. BTW, are any of you grouping together in real life? Internet rage and inaction fostered by other factors is not going to work for me anymore. I need real places to get together and plan for what we need to do about this all. I live in Salt Lake City, does anyone else live here?
Thanks for your time