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Individual Climate Action
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Discuss actions that we can directly take as individuals to reduce environmental harm.
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- [email protected] - Chatter on reducing GHG by way of reducing consumption of animal products (not necessarily environment-specific)
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- [email protected] - Another vegan community, but apparently unreachable from slrpnk.net
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- [email protected] - Landscaping in diverse low-waste ways
- [email protected] - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
- [email protected] - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
- [email protected] - fix it, don’t replace it
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- [email protected] - exercise your right to fix stuff
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- [email protected] - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
- [email protected] - To discuss waste avoidance
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- [email protected] - sustainable travel, if you must travel
less closely related to individual action:
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- [email protected] - For chatter specifically related to green energy
- [email protected] - Economics of reducing excessive consumption
- [email protected] - Discuss CO₂ removal
- [email protected] - Discuss forestation and reforestation
- [email protected] - Discuss reclaiming disturbed lands
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Honestly the US is not a driving force in the international climate movement. US activists are, but the US as a country has been rather slow in dealing with the situation.
Then China does China and the US has very little influence over them. They built a lot of green technology and deploy it at a massive scale, but also increase emissions every year. I honestly doubt that would change with another US president.
Russia is even worse. They make money from selling oil and gas and also profit a lot from global warming as that turns a lot of Siberia and the Far East into arable land.
The US is the slowest to adapt and it’s unmatched in consumerism and personal car dependency. The US is also the most under the stranglehold of unchecked capitalism with an anti-interventionalist population. China is not going to shutdown the coal-fired plants and Russia is not going to cut back on oil and gas if the sacrifice is not mutual. Any one big player can be sanctioned and isolated by a trade war but if the US, Russia, and China don’t mutually agree in lock-step, a global systemic movement won’t happen.
There is a remote chance that Trump would get on board with climate action -- not because he would reverse his climate denial position or because he would pay any attention to activists, but simply under the threat of being at the losing end of a trade war.
Russia is NOT the Soviet Union. It is 9th most populous and has the 11th largest economy. The only thing they have going for them are nukes and a large military. Other then that they are about as important as Mexico. That is to say they are a regional power and very very far from being on any sort of level with the US or China.