At 01:32 PM 4/28/2002, you wrote: > As an individual, what actions should I >take to forestall the great global warming? Failing in my >assigned task to turn back such warming, then what do I, as >an individual, do to prepare for it?
Reduce your individual burden as a human. Reduce your consumption of anything to considerate levels. Increase your efforts to reuse things (one very nice feature of this list, keeping old machines in use), do your best to ensure that material which must be discarded is recycled. Remember that your most powerful voice is where you spend your dollar so do so thoughtfully. There is nothing else we can do, yet I see so many people saying "Oh well, nothing I can do about big industry" as they squirt windex on the window, polish it with a disposable paper towel, take a swig of their coca cola, pop another treat in the microwave oven and tuck the windex bottle back into the cupboard full of plastic wrapped toxic cleaners. We can prepare our own processed foods from scratch. We can buy products that last, like cotton rags, and products that use minimal packaging. We can get bicycles and try to purchase energy efficient products. We can reduce our food consumption (got any excess energy stored on your body? Maybe you eat too much). We can do a LOT and it does begin with us. How often do you throw out paper with only a scribbled note on one side? How much of that newspaper do you read? Could you have gotten that information electronically? do you attempt to stop flyer delivery at your house? Etc, etc. Be creative, be considerate, do your personal effort. Granted it may be for naught, but it cannot be to the worse whether we're going to hell in a handbasket or not. However, if a large number of us in the industrial world made these personal efforts we might well see a major change we never thought possible. A change for the better. Remember, large companies are driven by consumer dollars. Lastly, what you can do is what I'm doing right now, talk about it. do I do these things, Hell yeah! I've been composting, recycling and reusing for twenty years. I dont go to the point that it negatively impacts my quality of life but i do put a little physical energy in rather than use industrial energy to live my life. It's not enough on my own but I do believe that if a significant number of my fellow humans did as much as I do, or even nearly as much, we'd solve the environmental problems to the point that "chickens little" would settle down on their nests and cackle happily. I wish I were a glow worm, 'Cause a glow worm's never glum. How can you be unhappy When the sun shines out your bum? http://anarkissed.myip.org end transmission [o^o] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
