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Which of your climate actions make the biggest difference? Here’s how to find out
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this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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Realizing that I, being an individual and not a massive corporation, have no power to effect any meaningful or notable positive change.
Decades ago the WEF created the idea that it's not the powerful elites and their corporate machines that are destroying the planet, it's the individual person.
The term "carbon footprint" is a prime example of this. It places the climate crisis solely upon the individual consumer, rather than the mass producing and polluting conglomerates that produce the very products they need us to consume.