10 Easy Ways to Improve Planet Earth’s Health and Save Ourselves

Less isn’t more, it’s the answer

How wasteful are we? These shelves in one thrift store, one of many thousands in the USA, hold hundreds of discarded travel mugs, water bottles and sipper cups, almost all of them promotional giveaways or “merch.” There’s too much and too many of everything, and that includes us. Photo by Noel Holston (Author)

Here’s a check list for how to make the Earth a healthier place for all creatures great and small:

1. Ban gasoline-powered motor vehicles that get fewer than 30 mpg combined

2. Drive gas-powered motor vehicles 50% less

3. Walk more

4. Ban promotional gimmes and merch

5. Eat less beef and pork

6. Raise less beef and pork

7. Stop using plastic bottles

8. Stop using plastic bags

9. Reproduce less

10. Limit reproduction to small people

Not easy? OK, I lied. It’s not easy, just honest.