The Most Important Climate Actions You Can Take Now
10 ways to step up your collective effort
With communities around the world experiencing extreme events (droughts, floods, fires, heat domes, etc.), it’s clear that the climate crisis already looms large. If we want to minimize both the rise in global temperature and the severity of its impact, we must step up our climate action now. While individual efforts (those we take in our own homes and daily lives) are necessary, they are nowhere near enough to make the changes needed in our societies. We need to take collective and systemic climate action.
So, what does this mean for us as individuals?
As I wrote in an earlier article, our greatest impact may be engaging those in our close circles to take climate action with us and joining local community efforts to halve greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. It is in these two places (close circles and community) where we can leverage our relationships to make change happen from the “middle out.”
10 Ways to Take Collective Climate Action
There are many ways to take collective action. Here are a few to get you started:
