Here are a dozen easy, effective ways each one of us can make a difference. “There’s no other way, if it doesn’t start with people.” “Change only happens when individuals take action,” says clean energy advocate Aliya Haq. We still must limit carbon pollution and aggressively move away from dirty fossil fuels toward cleaner power.īut it’s important to remember the equally vital contributions that can be made by private citizens-which is to say, by you.
Personal action is, of course, no substitute for meaningful government policies. Americans, on average, produce 21 tons of carbon a year, about four times the global average. What can you do? A whole lot, as it turns out. The effects of climate change are already threatening our health, our communities, our economy, our security, and our children’s future. “For our economic and national security, and for the future of all life on earth, lawmakers must act without delay.” Read more about the IPCC report here. “The good news is that we have the climate solutions needed, and they work,” says NRDC president Manish Bapna. The report describes how, despite gains in the clean energy revolution, nations are falling far too short of reducing climate pollution quickly enough to avoid severe damage, cost, and upheaval. EDITOR’S NOTE: On April 4, 2022, the IPCC released the Working Group III Sixth Assessment report on climate change mitigation.
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