Global Warming Prevention Article: Three Of The Best Tips That Can Help You Be Part Of The Solution

If global warming prevention is important to you, then you must be willing to set aside the cultural norms by which you currently live, and accept that you and everyone you know must sooner or later learn to live on a fraction of the energy you currently consume. By all counts, there is no other way.

The earth is large but finite. The result of the enormous human population and the environmental impact of our current way of life is that we are rapidly extinguishing the Earth’s biodiversity and degrading most ecosystems, creating a bleak future for ourselves.

There are numerous ways in which our learning to live with less will take place; there is no single, magic button solution that will prevent global warming. The following tips discuss some of most potent possibilities, in that implementing them will cut out or reduce some of your most significant personal contributions to global warming:

Global Warming Prevention Tip #1: Sell your car

Yup, the past century of personal motorized travel has been a very convenient, luxurious, and enjoyable demonstration of grossly unsustainable human activity. According to the Energy Information Administration, the transportation sector overtook industry as the biggest US producer of carbon emissions in 1999, and motor fuel accounts for 60% of total US production of carbon emissions over the past 20 years. Every person is responsible for these emissions in various ways direct and indirect, but the biggest behavioral culprit under your closest control is your personal transportation.

One of the best alternatives to owning your own car is to join a car co-op. In fact, car co-ops now operate in a growing number of cities around the world. Find the closest car sharing option to you.

No care sharing going on in your area? You can start your own car sharing co-op to help with global warming prevention.

If you cannot yet relinquish your car, make mileage efficiency the top deciding factor in choosing a vehicle, and start working now on any changes you need to make in your life to let you get rid of your car as soon as possible.

In the long run global warming prevention and public transportation go hand in hand. In fact, I would argue public transit is the only reasonable, long-term solution to the majority of our transport needs. It is slowly improving as US cities confront the impacts of an infrastructure built around cars and trucks. It will only get better when you demand adequate services; vote with your feet (and bring all your friends!) to demonstrate the need.

Global Warming Prevention #2: Buy local, eat local

You may have noticed the proliferation of farmer’s markets around the country over the past decade or so. This is not just a quaint fad, but rather a vital, direct-action opportunity to help prevent global warming and increase local food security. When you buy local (and this goes for anything, not just produce), you support local, sustainable economic growth by keeping farmers and other primary producers at work, and your money working to bolster your local economy instead of supporting executives and corporate investors.

The long-distance transport of food and other goods comes with a heavy ecological cost;the average meal on your plate in the US has traveled 2000 miles to get to you, which helps to explain why every calorie of food you consume costs an average of ten calories of energy to produce it. That imbalance is a major contributor to global warming, pouring carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at a far greater rate than the oceans and vegetation can store or reprocess them.

Here is a great resource to help you prevent global warming by eating more locally.

A partial change is better than no change; you probably can’t eliminate processed and imported goods from your life tomorrow, but the more needs you can meet locally, the more you reduce your carbon footprint and contribute to the prevention of further global warming.

Global Warming Prevention Tip #3: Make your local government part of the solution

No politician interested in reelection is going to sponsor the kind of legislation required to alleviate our massive responsibility for global warming without an organized citizenry pushing for better climate legislation. Only when citizen activism shifts this topic into the mainstream will the government move to act on it substantively. Influcing the federal government on this issue may seem daunting, but you can get your local government to help with global warming prevention much more easily.

Your personal action matters. Sell your car, buy your food from local sources, and pressure your governments to act. Most important of all, be vocal with friends, family, and strangers alike about why you’re making these changes, and what is at stake.

The global warming prevention effort has already begun, but it needs your help. Start here and now. It can be done.

Comments	Date
By maya n	2008-05-26 15:31:51
become a hero by taking action in life because you will become a good person
By lucy	2008-05-17 15:17:24
whoever does thing to be cool like litter in front of friend or not pick up litter needs to think about the fact that you are killing everybody that you love including yourself. so you suck it up and stop trying to be cool and be a decent person or die.
By misha	2008-05-15 11:18:42
global warming is natural
By Katie	2008-05-14 20:46:49
Polar bears, as of today, are officially on the endangered species list. By year 2050, they will have disappeared from Alaska. So if you won't prevent global warming for yourself, please, do it for the polar bears, man!
By global warming	2008-05-09 09:46:09
I litter. I spray aerosols into the air all the time. I chop down every tree i see. I leave every light in my house on constantly. It's the thing to do. Suck it.
By Rishabh	2008-04-23 07:31:58
switch off lights, fans, electric appliances, etc. when they're not required. plant trees near ur homes. help save our planet, it's the only one we've got!
By jayant patel	2008-01-20 01:55:27
become active with our goverment, reduce energy needed for heating, use hbybrid cars, choose clean energy options
By jaydep	2007-11-13 12:26:31
its great way to protect re environment

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