Below is an article I wrote two years ago in reference to global warming:
cheers Paul Paryski
Often conscientious people wonder what they can do as individuals in their
daily lives to help save our small beautiful, but suffering planet and the
myriad life forms its supports. Below is a list of relatively simple things
anyone can do to help assure our future:
1. buy only what you need, not to fulfill your imagined desires or
fantasies; often once one has purchased a fantasy object after a few short
months
another fantasy or desire enters our mind;
2. buy things of quality that last and are functional;
3. drive as though there is an egg that you don't want to break under
both your accelerator and brake pedals;
4. use public transportation when and if possible
5. don't waste water. Make a xeric garden; install low water use
appliances and plumbing; build a cistern and use grey water;
6. vote for local, state and national legislators that have a record of
protecting the environment and helping the poor or promise to do so; turn
off lights when not used;
7. recycle within your home; re-use bottles, recycle old clothes as
rags, repair things;
8. avoid household chemicals or products that contain strong chemicals;
use natural products as possible;
9. insulate your home;
10. buy organic food;
11. support local businesses;
12. live near to the center of your municipality and/or workplace if
possible;
13. maintain your vehicle;
14. walk & bike as much as possible;
15. learn to enjoy the night sky;
16. cut television viewing; most of what is programmed is nothing more
than market or political manipulation;
17. become vegetarian and/or eat less animal proteins (it takes 10X the
amount of resources to produce an equivalent amount of animal protein as
vegetable protein);
18. travel less;
19. make an effort to be well informed about local, national and global
issues;
20. avoid drinking plastic bottled water;
21. participate in activist organizations to protect the environment and
natural resources;
22. eat slowly and happily with friends and family (Italian style).
Remember that Americans consume a highly disproportionate amount of the world
’s resources especially energy, a totally unsustainable and dangerous
situation. All scientific, climatic and economic indicators point to a very
difficult future if we do not change our ways.
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