When I read articles about climate change it leaves me overwhelmed with the size of the problem and paralyzed into inaction.
But only collective actions help.
So I chose to stay engaged with my small gestures.
Gestures of hope.
Hope, as long as it’s not a form of denial, can be a powerful motivating force, pushing us to adopt a more future- and action-oriented mindset.
There are plenty of “low-hanging fruits” to do our part.
1. Go easy on the air-conditioning (we do it despite having solar panels on the roof of our home).
2. I don’t sit in our car with the motor idling (in Singapore it’s pretty much illegal to leave your car running while it’s stationary – the fine is S$70). For every 10 minutes your engine is off, you save nearly half a kilogram of CO2 from being released.
3. Be very conscious about the flights we take – or don’t take.
4. Research, identify and then channel my donations to causes that give me the biggest CO2-bang for my bucks.
As my regular readers know, my chosen organization is: www.rainforesttrust.org
While researching on what else I could do, I came across this neat website that lists 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming. It ranks them in terms of “Total Atmospheric CO2-EQ Reduction in Gigatons”.
https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank *
Protecting Rainforests comes in at #5 and Rooftop Solar at #10.
And #3 Reduced Food Waste certainly applies to every one of us.
I invite you to check it out and see where you could contribute to some of those ways and do your part too.
*Drawdown is the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing & then start to steadily decline, ultimately reversing global warming.