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What can the average person do to help? The scale of the problem sometimes seems so large that it's impossible to imagine how one person riding a bike or purchasing "green" energy from PG&E can really have an impact.

How can one person have a bigger impact on such a global-scale issue?

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Well, you know 150 people, convince them to do the same. Get local politicians to be more proactive.

In your personal life, switch everything you can to electric: electric cars and electric home heating/cool (with a heat pump or radiant hyrdonic). If you can, get solar panels to power these things. This will decarbonize you and your family's footprint and move the cultural norm ever so slightly. Financial packages that make these decisions the rational decision and building codes that allow this to happen are also essential.

Drive less, and use public transit more, a relatively modest proposal. Vote out the blatantly vote pandering politicians pushing fossil fuels. Endorse those pushing solar and wind, plant billions of trees. These are a few of my favorite things. We are already F’d from pre-existing emissions - don’t go YOLO!

Have a -30x climate contribution. Give $10,000/year to cool earth.

Looking around me it seems to be stand in the street, hold a sign, block traffic and mess up everyone’s day...

Or we could continue to be agile and innovate like humanity and technology has always done.

This is not an “innovation” problem. We know how to solve climate change. It is a policy and funding problem. It is a political problem. We need more protests!

Try to block free trade agreements that aren’t in line with the paris goals.

The radical answer is to go out and kill as many other people as possible. Can't kill the planet if they ain't alive. The good news is that it's all media scare anyway. If you live long enough you too, will learn to not trust the media. Just think about the stuff you know a lot about and how the media depicts it. Media is clueless about everything.

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