Individual🌡 Climate Action ✊

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The first follower closes a reinforcing feedback loop and makes it easier for the next person to also break from norms and join in. Each subsequent person joining the movement makes it easier for the next person to join, and so on, creating an amplifying effect. If that amplification is strong enough, it can reach a tipping point. At a critical mass, the social incentives reverse, and change becomes self-propelling.

I made this a “climate action individual” post because a “library economy” is made of individual actions - borrowing a tool instead of buying one, sharing your books with the neighborhood, etc. Bottom up instead of top down.

“It is our duty to induce people, by every honest means, to go Vegan.”

Across four different experiments he could see that perceived unfairness - especially when the tax was proposed to be distributed in an unfair way that would make poor people pay disproportionally much, compared to richer groups and corporations - not only limited support for the proposed climate taxes, it also made the participants perceive the taxes as less effective and lowered their trust in policymakers.

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Once a month between April and October, a group of stitchers takes to the streets of Edinburgh, making themselves comfortable on camping chairs decorated with hand-embroidered banners inviting people to #stitchitdontditchit. Equipped with sewing baskets and mending skills, they repair their garments in public and teach interested passers-by how to do the same.

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump doubled down on his long-standing complaint about low-flow showerheads taking too long to clean his “beautiful hair.” He ordered his administration to repeal a rule, revived by the Biden administration, that aimed to save water by restricting flow from the fixtures. A White House fact sheet promised the order would undo “the left’s war on water pressure” and “make America’s showers great again.”

The scientific consensus regarding dietary change as climate and conservation solution has reached remarkable clarity, resembling the consensus on climate change itself both in evidential strength and in the organized effort to undermine it. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change explicitly acknowledges the critical role of reduced meat consumption in meeting climate targets. Studies in prestigious journals like Nature Communications, Science, and PNAS quantify the exact relationship between dietary choices and environmental impacts with increasing precision. As these findings permeate public consciousness, veganism continues its evolution from fringe lifestyle to rational response to planetary boundaries — a transformation accelerated by celebrity endorsements, documentary exposés, and social media. This scientific clarity renders continued resistance to dietary change not merely uninformed but actively anti-intellectual.

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SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil’s bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest, worrying global companies including Cargill and Bunge (BG.N) which have important operations.

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This essay by Tim Wu exposes insightful concepts essential to the solarpunk movement. Six pages is only too inconvenient to read for those who are most trapped by convenience.

An unhealthy obsession with blocking immigration into Europe has fueled right-wing conservative parties. This xenophobia ultimately culminates into stifling climate action. We are now more dependent on individual actions.

such as the linked bug report for Firefox. (edit: note that you need an account on the bug tracking platform to vote).

As a self-respecting environmentalist, I #boycottAmazon (rationale; ¶6 covers relevant environmental problems with Amazon and thus why boycotting Amazon is a useful individual action).