Climate Action Begins at Home

Climate Action Begins at Home

Alan Journet, Cofacilitator Southern Oregon Climate Action Now
January 2023

While it’s clear that solving the urgent climate crisis requires substantial collective governmental effort at all levels, from the local to the federal, it is also very much the case that climate action starts with what we as individuals and families do. This is a critical first step because

1. although solving the climate crisis is a daunting task, it starts at home where the cumulative impact of millions of painless choices can be immense, and
2. while collective governmental action undoubtedly can have a greater effect than individual action, those of us aware of the problem, it’s causes and remedies, will have no authority or credibility in urging friends, co-workers, family members, and candidates or elected representatives to take action unless we are doing all that we can to address the crisis ourselves.

What’s the Climate Crisis?

In a nutshell, Figure 1 depicts the problem:

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