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In 2017, climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas coauthored a study trying to answer this question: What are the most effective changes you can make to your lifestyle if you want to reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet?
She found that for individuals in high-emitting countries, choices like flying less, driving less, and eating less meat are all helpful. But there’s another lifestyle choice that is much more effective over the long term: having fewer kids.
Yet in her new book,
Under the Sky We Make, Nicholas says that if you really want to be a parent, you should go ahead and have kids anyway.
Carbon Offsets Can Really Make a Difference Here’s How AFAR 2 hrs ago
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The Alto Mayo Protected Forest has seen much human encroachment, but money from carbon credits is funding alternative projects.Carbon offsets are a complicated and often misunderstood proposition. They’re no substitute for reducing our carbon emissions at the source. As Kimberly Nicholas insists in the must-read
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World a book that combines unassailable facts with personal anecdotes and a plan for action the best way to reduce our individual footprints is to go flight-, car-, and meat-free.
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Biden proposed $14Bn for initiatives to fight climate change in his 2022 budget. 300+ businesses and investors called on his administration to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. A new series of briefs by RMI provides insights into how to get there. An international energy company executives’ panel said the move to renewable energy is unstoppable, although investments in nuclear power, ca
Earth Day this year is making me feel a little cynical about the state of the planet. It seems like every month there’s a new big story about how dire our current trajectory is, how it could destroy us all, and how we desperately need to make change and fast to avoid annihilation. But of course, disinformation, economic inequality, and governmental ineffectiveness plague the U.S. and the world. The people most impacted by climate change are the least responsible for it, and those most responsible have no incentive to change their behavior. Why would they, when this system is working out pretty well for them.
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How you can impact climate change
As the global climate crisis becomes more and more dire, scientists and environmental activists are turning to the public to help effect change before it s too late.Jenny Evans/Getty Images
As the conversation about climate change and the environment continues to heat up, many people wonder - can one person really make a difference? What can I be doing to help the earth? It’s not like we’re in the 90s anymore I’m not going to tell people to switch their light bulbs and that it’s going to stop climate change, said Jerome Foster II, a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.