Annie Leymarie: Degrowth includes this! But choosing smaller families, moving to an urban area to rely on public transport/cycling/walking and ditch cars, shifting to plant-based diets, systems thinking/ecocentrism, reducing waste and reducing consumption generally are things we can all do!

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Degrowth includes this! But choosing smaller families, moving to an urban area to rely on public transport/cycling/walking and ditch cars, shifting to plant-based diets, systems thinking/ecocentrism, reducing waste and reducing consumption generally are things we can all do!

Actually I'm finishing up Dark PR by Grant Ennis and action is zero sum. What we really should be doing is organizing to build political power, to compel our governments to end fossil fuel subsidies (to start with), then use regulation & taxation to support all that other stuff.

There's much truth in that - but the polluting industries are equally delighted if we think that individual action doesn't matter. Systems & individual change go hand in hand! Social tipping points happen once a behaviour has sufficiently influenced that of others. The lifestyle choices mentioned

here, for instance, have a very big postitive impact for the climate and nature crises (I would add one more: choose a smaller family)

Polluting industries love when people promote individual action. The idea of the carbon footprint was created and promulgated by an oil company (as I'm sure you know). Please take a look at Dark PR. I ride an ebike, am mostly vegetarian, have followed this stuff for 35 yrs. The book is crucial.

This has already been discussed in this conversation. No, the concept was not created by an oil company! bsky.app/profile/anni...

No, the concept was created by William (or Bill) Rees, who has some pretty stern words about the urgent need for degrowth: www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/...

The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is Inevitablewww.mdpi.com Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been c...

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A minimum research on Google or Wikipedia would take you to the concept of the ecological footprint, created by William Rees in the early 1990s, from which the carbon footprint was drawn.

Regardless of who came up with it, fossil fuel companies ran with it. Where do you find "carbon footprint" calculators?

You have an interesting conversation here, about individual action, ecological footprints etc. But I would like to hear more about political action. For the USA, especially democracy needs an overhaul. What do you think of RepresentUs www.instagram.com/p/C2AiXaisl6...

They seem fine, their goals are good. Common Cause has also been working for most of these for many years. Really, exactly what organization you connect with is less important than that you get active. I'm partial to local stuff myself (but not exclusively).

Here's some great advice about finding where to plug in from Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. www.ted.com/talks/ayana_...

How to find joy in climate actionwww.ted.com We can all play a role in the climate movement by tapping into our skills, resources and networks in ways that bring us satisfaction, says climate leader Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. She suggests drawing ...

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