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• 2007-04-04, 10:45 (trackback)

  What can we do against the climate change?

  1. Lots of people say something like, “recycling paper won’t stop global warming”, and it won’t, obviously.
     They also point out that scientists can’t accurately predict what will happen.
     And in countries like The UK and The USA, you often hear the point that countries like China and India will produce an increasingly massive amount of carbon dioxide over the coming years.

     All these things are true
     BUT
     Some countries must lead by example otherwise nobody will want to change.
     I’m not particularly surprised that there’s some uncertainty about what will happen to the global climate over the next few decades. Maybe I’m reacting to a worst-case scenario, but if I lived on the fringes of a rapidly expanding desert, or on the flood-threatened land in Bangladesh, how would I feel if I found out that people in the UK couldn’t even be bothered to use energy saving lightbulbs or walk 5 min to the local shops instead of driving?

     There’s no definitive answer, no person can stop things like this happening and we will never know exactly how much difference we did make or might have made, but we can try lots of little things.
     Even if we break the planet, not breaking it quite so quickly would be a relatively good result.

     If you want a simpler answer, I think these are good guidelines:
     Reduce your consumption of resources
     Reuse and repair what you can
     Recycle as much as possible

     Posted by: gromble | April 20, 2007 at 00:52

  2. @gromble: Thanks for your comment. I agree with you.

     Posted by: Daniel Hofstetter | April 25, 2007 at 11:30

  3. I try to buy much stuff 2nd hand. Not because of the price difference (although that helps too), but because the more stuff I don’t buy new, the less packaging is wasted. I hate the way how new products are packaged: usually quite an over-usage of resources.

     Oh and I try to use my bicycle and public transportation instead of the car :-)
     Bicycle is also good for your health, and public transportation is good for social contacts :-)

     Posted by: Dieter | April 28, 2007 at 20:33

  4. @Dieter: Yeah, I don’t own a car and so I use bicycle and public transportation too. An additional advantage is you no longer have to care about parking possibilities and to pay for them.

     Posted by: Daniel Hofstetter | April 29, 2007 at 11:31
  
  

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