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HeartachesNhangovers
HeartachesNhangovers's Journal
HeartachesNhangovers's Journal
August 9, 2018
Voting won't mitigate climate change ...
or any of the other negative human impacts on the environment: water pollution and overuse, elimination and degradation of natural habitat, etc, etc. Only widely-adopted and significant changes in personal behavior will make any difference:
?Minimizing the number of gadgets, vehicles, appliances & clothing items we have - repairing rather than discarding & replacing.
?Sacrificing personal comfort - leaving the A/C and heat off unless absolutely necessary, and making do with a few hundred square feet of living space.
?Rejecting single-use products and packaging.
?Eliminating travel as amusement.
Basically, nothing will significantly improve for the environment until Americans broadly reject consumerism. Is any politician advocating that?
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