What Can You Do to Tackle Climate Change
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20 Simple Steps to Reduce Global Warming >>
Prepared by the Global and Regional Air and Energy Program, Environmental Defense
Whenever you save energy – or use it more efficiently – you reduce the demand for gasoline, oil, coal, and natural gas. Less burning of these fossil fuels means lower emissions of carbon dioxide, the major contributor to global warming. Right now the U.S. releases about 40,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per person each year. If we can reduce energy use enough to lower greenhouse gas emissions by about 2% a year, in ten years we will "lose" about 7000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per person.
Here are 20 simple steps that can help cut your annual emissions of carbon dioxide by thousands of pounds. The carbon dioxide reduction shown for each action is an average saving.
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Safe Carbon Climate Footprint Calculator >>
The SafeClimate carbon footprint calculator allows you to determine carbon dioxide emissions from major sources: home energy consumption and transportation by car and plane.
Wikipedia Entry >>
Fighting for sustainable development isn't a case of proving that global warming does indeed exist or pointing fingers anywhere else. It's about making personal decisions and coming together in communities to do what is best for the environment, even if that means making sacrifices. Politically, we can make change more effectively if we can show our devotion to the environment at the polls as well. Sustainable development is impossible without the organization of communities and the education of the populace on how to live by less-destructive means.
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