Comrade! I like the way you think.
You’re not personally responsible or able to prevent climate change. This is a societal issue that requires societal changes. Don’t feel obligated to put yourself in financial trouble since the impact to your life is potentially devastating and your impact to solving climate change would be negligible. It fucking sucks but we live in a brutal capitalist system and you need to make sure you can care for yourself.
I might suggest seeing if there are local advocacy groups where you can contribute your time and, if you truly have excess wealth, help with direct financial support as needed, small contributions to things like mailing campaigns or buying a booth at a faire will help much more than blanket contributions - but, IMO, the bigger need is in effort and time.
You’re not personally responsible
While I agree with your overall comment, I disagree with how it starts. We are all responsible for the decisions we make, once we are educated about those decisions.
Example: You can buy bamboo toilet paper for less than Charmin when purchased online. This reduces the deforestation of old growth trees by reducing the demand. Now that you know this, you are responsible for the choice you make on what you purchase. Or buy a bidet. Every person who talks about this spreads education, which is what influences larger scale decisions about regulation (albeit much more slowly than campaign donations).
For those whop ask, source: https://savetrees.co/products/bulk-toilet-paper?variant=44493957431458 vs https://www.walmart.com/ip/Charmin-Ultra-Gentle-Toilet-Paper-18-Mega-Rolls-231-Sheets-per-Roll/2846366584
$0.0039991667 per sheet vs $0.0048027898 per sheet for Charmin.
Political advocacy is the way to go. Pushing politicians to change laws is what got renewables to be cheap in the first place. We need more of that.
A gun and lots of ammo and a one way ticket to D.C. is a start, I’d say.
Nah, that’s where the puppets live. The puppet masters are all over the place.
If the puppets are more afraid of the citizenry than the billionaires then that’d go a long way towards solving some of our big problems.
I think we can agree that both methods would be effective
A few guns won’t do anything. Guns and violence are never effective without the right ideas behind them.
Think Occupy Wall Street, but everyone has an AR-15.
Solar panels and a vasectomy
People who care about climate change aren’t the ones who need to get a vasectomy.
The perfectly alienated and isolated liberal approach that changes nothing. Festooning a suburban house with solar panels is like washing your oversized pickup truck with those unbleached brown recycled paper towels.
However, advocating for vasectomies and such gestures towards eugenics and eco-fascism.
solar panels or something? No one is stopping climate change with $10K, I don’t even think $10B would make a substantial dent.
10B could make a couple underground metro lines in an otherwise extremely car dependent city with no public transport
Ya its a decent start. My point here is the scale of what we’re facing. Its going to take trillions of dollars, synchronous action taken by many nations simultaneously and a complete restructuring of the current world order. There’s always hope but at this point i’m fairly cynical and don’t have a lot of faith that the right people are in charge to even start the conversation.
I think they’re just asking, from a categorical imperative perspective, what is the most effective way for all individuals with a bit of savings to help the climate situation.
And tbh, at this point OP is probably better off spending that $10k on preparing for:
- inclimate weather (HVAC, water proofing, warm clothing)
- inconsistent power (battery backups, a generator)
- food/clean water shortages (home gardening skills, rain catching/water purification).
At this point, there’s virtually nothing that can be done to stop the impact of climate change, there is only adapting to survive it. The best we can do is vote and/or hope for our global political situation to finally reach its inevitable crisis point. But I don’t expect that to be a pleasant experience.
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Ted Kaczynski is still alive it seems.
Why are you making your fed work on the lord’s day?
NO KINGS!
NO GODS!
A website with detailed steps on eco-terrorism.
Climate change is tied to capitalism. Use it to run for office.
Depends on where you live and your situation. You either limit your personal CO2 or the society’s CO2 or even both. Most of my suggestions will make or save you money over time.
For personal you could do these, most of these will pay themselves back within 10 years in savings.
- Swap gas stove for induction stove
- Swap a gas boiler to heat pump + electric boiler
- Buy solar panels for the roof and/or battery
- Heat pump for domestic heating for colder regions.
- Home insulation such as triple glass windows
- For hot regions getting an awning for the windows facing the sun goes a long way.
- Selling car to buy EV (CO2 neutral at 1 year, less CO2 after that)
- Buying an E-bike if you have short trips and would like to bike more (CO2 negative almost instantly if you prevent car trips)
Otherwise if you don’t feel like any of those investing in solar companies or battery production companies will make it easier for them to finance expansions to their operations and maybe even make you some money along the way.
If you live in the UK or applicable countries getting in on Octopus energy co-op energy production is a good way to invest the money and reduce CO2 at the same time.
Don’t forget that an easy way to limit your carbon footprint is free. Notably plastics, aluminum, steel, other metals, concrete and beef.
To limit society’s footprint you can show up to city Council meetings and advocate for bike paths and public transport which really goes a long way. Showing up with a couple of buddies, making them talk and buying beer for them after in one of the most cost effective ways to stop climate change. Often city council members just need some people to back them up when proposing the CO2 negative urban planning improvements.
Stopping climate change is all about taking small steps towards the solution, asking this question on lemmy is a great start.
If you truly don’t need the money, donate it to an org that’s doing political advocacy.
10k of solar isn’t going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Changing laws and regulations will.
You’re implying advocacy can beat financial and industrial interests on critical topics, something that goes against what we have been witnessing for a while.
Solar, wind, and EVs have become much cheaper after they received significant government incentives. Feed in tariffs started in the 1990s, implemented by Japan, Germany, China, and many other governments decreased the cost of renewables and built industrial capacity.
Governments did that because of significant environmental advocacy from the 1960s onwards.
Advocacy feels like it doesn’t work now because there’s massive advocacy pushing back against our longterm interests, but it’s couched as “industrial interests” so we don’t see it.
None of this put a dent in CO2 emissions, because more energy available just means more energy consumed. These are distractions, especially EVs. For the sake of how livable the planet will be in 50 years, all these efforts had a negligible effect.
The current trend of governments abandoning mitigation strategies in favor of adaptation is a testament to the irrelevance in the overall response to climate collapse. The “green transition” is just a way to sell more and produce more.
None of this put a dent in CO2 emissions, because more energy available just means more energy consumed.
I’m my geo, we’re lowering GHG emissions and increasing electricity output. That isn’t entirely due to renewables, but it’s part of the equation. Those renewables were affordable due to feed in tariffs mentioned above.
Without continued advocacy, entrenched interests will reverse those trends. With continued advocacy, we may be able to lower emissions further.
Put it in a bank that doesn’t invest your money into the wrong stuff. In fact a bank can loan more money than it has, but there’s a ratio set by law. So for example that could effectively be 30k in arbitrary investments.
If you want to spend it, I’d buy a good bicycle or get my home isolated or sum like that. You could get cooking lessons and proper cookware and stay away from processed foods that generate tons of waste. If you have the space you could grow your own vegetables and have chickens, which eat bio waste. Basically reduce what you buy. You could get tools and learn how to fix things if that’s more up your alley. For example I’ve fixed my Sennheiser headphones several times, but it did need some investment in tools. You could also donate it to a repair café.
The only ways you can fight climate change in any meaningful way with 10k also involve going to prison
10k is cutting it thin… the Accuracy International ACSR is just a hair under $10k USD… and that is before taxes. Then you need the 1,000-10,000 rounds of ammo for training before you become good enough to start taking out card-carrying members of the Parasite Class from a kilometre-plus distance.
Now granted, you can go a lot cheaper than that, but accuracy and range will suffer. Remember, you want to be far enough away that you can reliably pack up and sanitize the scene before you leave.
Alternatively, swarming AI drones in the hundreds, with on-board explosive packages, would allow you to deploy from abandonable emplacements that can loiter for many hours to even days. No-one is going to question a cube van that sits in a paid spot for a week, at least until it’s roof opens up and a thousand tiny drones with facial recognition take off and take out a few oligarchs.
But honestly, you’re likely talking a few tens of thousands for that scenario, at minimum. I would likely bank at it being in the low hundreds of thousands for a truly effective and difficult-to-counter deployment.
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10k is cutting it thin… the Accuracy International ACSR is just a hair under $10k USD… and that is before taxes. Then you need the 1,000-10,000 rounds of ammo for training before you become good enough to start taking out card-carrying members of the Parasite Class from a kilometre-plus distance.
Now granted, you can go a lot cheaper than that, but accuracy and range will suffer. Remember, you want to be far enough away that you can reliably pack up and sanitize the scene before you leave.
Alternatively, swarming AI drones in the hundreds, with on-board explosive packages, would allow you to deploy from abandonable emplacements that can loiter for many hours to even days. No-one is going to question a cube van that sits in a paid spot for a week, at least until it’s roof opens up and a thousand tiny drones with facial recognition take off and take out a few oligarchs.
But honestly, you’re likely talking a few tens of thousands for that scenario, at minimum. I would likely bank at it being in the low hundreds of thousands for a truly effective and difficult-to-counter deployment.
3 meals and no rent? Doesn’t sound too bad.
I wouldn’t even want to be in an Austrian luxury prison. There’s a reason why people have went as far as dying while fighting for their freedom, it’s one of our most precious possessions.
Freedom outside of prison is still a delusion. You are a servant of the rich elite.
Oh there’s rent. Most US prisons charge per diem rates for housing, and they charge for many “services” and they charge literal extortion rates. Prisoners leave US prisons deeeeeply in debt
The only ways you can fight climate change in any meaningful way […] involve going to prison
correct
Become a shareholder for one of the many giant corporations responsible, and try to sway them into cleaning thier mess up.
Give it to a group like Just Stop Oil or other direct action / sabotage focused climate activism group - they’re perpetually broke and could do a lot of good with that money.
