Research shows heat domes, wildfires, and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms.

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    I’m terrified for my kiddo. We’ve done all we can over the past 10 years. Went plant based, got our winter heating off oil, ride electric bikes, all my lawn tools are electric, bought an EV. I’m running out of ideas.

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      Spoiler alert: your individual choices don’t matter. Drastic and sweeping changes need to be made at the corporate/supply chain level if we have any hope of surviving this.

      So… We’re fucked.

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        Every bit helps. I can’t tell others to make changes if I don’t do it myself.

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          Sure you can. We don’t need to be martyrs to demand system-wide change

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        You may find this article helpful in why it still matters:

        “My country’s emissions are so negligible, it doesn’t matter what we do. It won’t make a difference”. It’s true: the emissions of many countries in the world are completely dwarfed by a few big players. We see this in the chart below. But there are several reasons why rich countries with ‘negligible’ emissions need to step up to the challenge. What they do does matter.

        https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahritchie/p/small-emitters

        Individual actions, while inconsequential, can help signal the market ( eg demand for ev infrastructure) and can add up when combined with federal regulations.