Starting and Sustaining Your Climate Action Journey
The Frog will explore The Climate Action Handbook: A Visual Guide to 100 Climate Solutions by Heidi Roop in the first 100 days of 2024
In the first `100 days of 2024 we will explore 100 climate solutions that may “empower you to evaluate, engage, and act” to address on-going climate change as an individual on your terms.
A large part of my anxiety about the future of climate change is the magnitude of the problem and helplessness at my ability to make a difference – to have an impact the outcome of what I consider to be an existential threat to humans on this planet. In outlining Climate Action 1, Heidi describes you and me, as an individuals, as “statistically blameless”. You have choices: acting on feelings of hopelessness and doing nothing, or becoming an activist and join with groups like Extinction Rebellion, which advocates and organizes “non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate and Ecological Emergency”, among others.
“Determination and passion, paired with civic engagement and political action, can be a force to turn the tide on climate change”
Heidi Roop
I’m with Heidi – every action matters. Understanding the urgency of the crisis, committing to and learning about what you can do, and taking action as best you can can personally “turn despair into determination”. This is particularly true for those in the US which has historically contributed the most to the emission of greenhouse gases that are the cause of the crisis. You can find details in Project Drawdown, which is a science-based approach with a roadmap that is intensely focused on advancing effective, science-based climate solutions and strategies, fostering bold, new climate leadership, and promoting new narratives and new voices. With data, they highlight that individual and households in the US (and other significant emitting countries) CAN have a profound effect on reducing the emissions needed to head off the most dire predictions of climate science if we stick to business as usual.
So believe it: every action matters.
Next Up: Climate Action in 2024 – Day 2: Center Actions in Your Strengths and Passions
Howard Creel
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