Get rid of your car if you can, grow your own food, do anything you can to remove yourself from the systems in place. This seems to be the only peaceful way without turning to ecoterrorism. Though at this rate everything that doesn't have immediate effefts seems futile.
The other option is to take a job working on decarbonizing the larger system.
Do they need IT people? I guess I'd be willing to learn a new skill too.
Of course. There's a fair bit of that.
Forgive my ignorance, but where would be a good place to start looking? My line of work definitely indirectly contributes to the mess and I want out.
Depends a lot on what country you're in. There's something of a database here but if you go down the list of things that need doing from the IPCC you may find that personal networking will connect you to somebody doing one of them.
The era of coal will end with our civilisation.
We can get it to end sooner. Other countries have taken coal-for-electricity to zero already. We Know how to make steel without it.
Feudalism: let them ear cake
Petrofeudalism: let them climb on their yachts
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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