Here's a handy list of things to avoid if you want to reduce your carbon impact.
Don't own or use private jets.
Don't own or use massive private yachts. The kind of little yachts that have sails are fine.
Don't own a large company that is involved with ecocide. Don't extract fossil fuels, don't frack, don't cut down rainforests, don't pay people to do those things for you. Don't own a massive agrobusiness. Don't steal water from people or poison their water supplies. Don't use massive fishing nets and industrial fishing boats.
Don't lobby governments on behalf of any of those ecocidal companies.
Don't invest in cryptocurrency.
Don't go on cruise ships.
Don't own or drive an SUV.
Don't throw your clothes away after only wearing them once.
The odds are of course that only the last four things on that list are even options you have. This is because the vast majority of us are not the ones doing the vast majority of the harm. However, not doing the last four is still relevant and important, and it's always worth doing what you can do.
The biggest job, for the majority of us, is changing the culture that celebrates poisonous over-consumption and pushing for laws to restrict it, and to end ecocide.
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