The first step to doing something about climate change is to vote for a political party that actually believes in climate change.
hahahahahaha ooooh boy, that is some grade A wishful thinking.
Here's a thought... try to convince the average Joe to not turn on his air conditioning on a hot day "for the environment".
see how that goes.
We are a selfish species that deserves to go extinct. Have you ever considered that?
If "we" are not a selfish species, say 99% are really good, and would shut off the AC, say no to meat, wish to ban plastics etc...
The 1%, can and would destroy and burn the planet. Remember, BP oil spill in the Gulf? Thats just one. On a global scale, the few hundreds of millions, and of those dozens, are burning the planet, despite the billions who do not.
The destructive capacity of the few far outwidth the constructive capacity of the many.
The problem is not the air condition or the electricity needed to run the air conditioner.
The problem is the electricity was generated by burning a fossil fuel and that causes massive amounts of CO2 pollution.
So the solution is quite simple.
Just tax, and tax hard any electricity producer that is creating CO2 pollution.
What will happen is for a short time Joe's electricity bill will go up and he will put his air con on low.
But in the longer term market forces will quickly find ways to make electricity without producing CO2 just so that they can sell cheaper electricity to Joe and have him once again cranking up his air con to full.
Right now there is no real cost to creating CO2 pollution so of course there is no incentive to stop producing CO2.
Totally agree. The Earth will handle that.
It seems we need to do everything we can individually, we need governments to step forward, AND we need companies/academics to innovate numerous times.