This morning on a panel for Missouri State University related to #climatechange, food security & the future, I got a version of the same question I'm asked at every event:
"What can I do personally to make a meaningful difference?"
There are so many ways to answer this, but I thought it would be interesting to share the question on #Mastodon.
@Sheril
The problem is global and real solutions lie with governmental commitments to funding and modification of energy use, and taxing and/or penalizing the fossil fuel industry criminals into oblivion.
Our individual choices really have VERY little impact (but make us feel like we’re contributing). Supporting global change organizations can help; bringing awareness to the impending catastrophe can help; in the US, VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS is a positive action; in other countries, voting for enviro leaders is a positive action (or joining revolutions if necessary).
This nightmare is well beyond our own personal sphere except as we force every country’s government to wake the hell up and #savetheearth.
I have little hope we will avoid the Sixth mass extinction event (it’s already underway), and I think millions of people will perish in weather & climate-caused disasters & related migrations. We’ve had 50 years of good data, empty talk, with little meaningful action. It’s too late.
Week 200 of fasting on Fridays for the #ClimateCrisis. Week 200 of striking from working and shopping on Fridays for the #ClimateEmergency. Photo of #climatestrike followed by a walk in the park to visit a lake and waterfall.
"The prognosis for the survival of a large proportion of extant species is not good. Our review lays out arguments clearly demonstrating that there is a biodiversity crisis, quite probably the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction. Dedicated conservation biologists and conservation agencies are doing what they can, focused mainly on threatened birds and mammals, among which some species may be saved from the extinction that would otherwise ensue. But we are pessimistic about the fate of most of the Earth's biodiversity, much of which is going to vanish without us ever knowing of its existence."
A study about the Sixth Mass Extinction from 2022 but still as accurate, alerting and pressing as ever. Which is why I wanted to boost it here.
I feel like it's one of the parts about climate change and human folly that is often disregarded for no apparent reason.
#ClimateCrisis will lead to many deaths and conflicts, especially (and mostly unjustified) in the global south, the ones suffering from the global north's colonialist bullshittery.
But, many don't seem to have in mind that if, for example, bees are gone, flowers won't get pollinated. Ask the Chinese people about it.
Earth's biosphere is intertwined in a very complex manner and us humans are just a small part of it, even if we may believe otherwise.
At the rate, species are currently vanishing, I find it highly alerting that it's being ignored by most media, except for those deeply involved with #climatechange and #nature