Green - An environmentalist community

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12507361

In 2006, the animal agriculture industry was confronted with the first global estimate of the livestock sector’s contribution to anthropogenic climate change. Consistent with other industries, including tobacco and fossil fuels, the animal agriculture industry’s response to evidence that its product caused harm was to push back. The industry employed the help of universities. Industry-funded university-based researchers and centers have helped downplay livestock’s contributions to climate change, increase public trust that the industry is proactively reducing emissions on its own accord, and shape climate policymaking in the industry’s favor. Despite more than 15 years of research attributing significant climate change impacts to animal agriculture, US policies to mitigate the climate impacts of livestock emissions remain insufficient and dominated by industry-supported financial incentives that are voluntary and taxpayer-subsidized.

As politicians get ready to cosy up with Big Toxics at a private event in a chemicals factory to discuss a new 'European Industrial Deal', Corporate Europe Observatory looks at how the Green Deal's proposals to reduce and replace toxic substances that harm health and ecosystems, have been delayed and sidelined. This is the result of chemicals lobbying including an industry-commissioned study that has scaremongered over the impacts of new regulations.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1864045

Things seem dire...

We must act now and do actual activism, imho.

Not just "educate" people on these issues.

Collective:

-Regulate Polluting Industries

-Improve insulation in older buildings

-Build more apartments

-Put carbon labels on products

-Mandate higher build quality of manufactured goods

-Require that water pipes have pressure management and active leak detection

-Prioritize public transit over electric cars

-Halt all new road developments and just maintain them until public transit is good enough

-Subsidize Electric cars (second to public transit in funding)

-Establish support networks for people who are using older gadgets/cars/clothing to encourage solutions to make goods last longer

-Build more green spaces

-Create a program to recycle old clothing

-More widespread use of contactless payments

-Ban all fossil fuel ads

-Ban oversized vehicles

-Encourage the use of hatchbacks and sedans

-Towns sign plant based treaty

-Convert animal agriculture land to wild lands

-Ban private jets/yachts

-Design cities as more walkable

-Switch to renewable and nuclear technologies

-Support repairability

-Shut down all oil operations

-Mandate microfibre filters for washing machines

-Force companies to mine minerals from e-waste instead

-Give up half of the planet to nature

-Do everything to prevent and end wars

-Tax the rich and use the money for climate initiatives

-Switch to bidets to save trees

-Switch to super slippery toilets to save water

-Mandate all stoves to be electric

-Reduce concrete in constructions projects and opt for bamboo/wood construction

-Require all office work to be done from home for as much as possible

-Ban discrimination and promote affirmative action so that there isn't lost potential or innovation from disadvantaged groups

-Increase grid interconnections

-Implement waste-to-energy conversions for waste management systems (stopgap solution)

-Build robust high sped rail network and ban flights under 4 hours.

-Require much longer warranties on consumer goods

-Require all software to become open source after the company stops developing the code

-Patents expire after 4 years

-Ban cryptominning

-Increase energy efficient standards with new houses with solar panels mandatory

-Support political parties with green policies

-Boycott fossil fuel banks and switch to green credit unions

Individual:

-Switch to E-sim

-Switch to green burials

-Buy used

-Install geothermal heat pump systems

-Install smart thermostats

-Use shampoo/conditioner bars

-Shop at refillable container stores

-Buy stuff at the local store

-Eat plant based

-Switch to Ecosia

-Recycle

-Give homemade gifts

-Compost

-Be organized

-Avoid synthetic cloths

-Buy reputable carbon credits

-Install Linux on new/old computers

-Pickup litter

-Ride your bicycle instead of the car

-Adopt kids and companions instead

-Start your own garden

-Use older cars for more than 12 years

-Keep phone for longer than 5.5 years (easy to do with fairphone,iphone, pixel, samsung or android phone with unlockable bootloader)

-Buy Fairphones as they're the most repairable and have to 8-10 years of software support

-Buy Framework laptops as they're user repairable upgrade-able

-Use reusable diapers for your infant/toddler

-Buy goods within your continent to avoid cargo ship bunker fuel

-Use refillable water bottles for everywhere you go

-Demand that your investment/retirement program switches to green projects

-Switch to e-documents

-Track your government's climate policy by visiting https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/

I will add more to list as more ideas are thought of.

NPR interviews the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate about the new strategies being used online by those with interests in denying anthropogenic global warming. Audio (~12min) + transcript.

“The three major families in the new denial are: that climate solutions won’t work, that the impacts of global warming are beneficial or harmless, or that the climate science and the climate movement are unreliable. Because let’s be absolutely frank about this: This has never been a debate about the science. This has been a debate between scientists and those who want to stop action being taken on climate change because that would destroy the oil and gas industry.”