MagicManICT wrote:Want to contribute to saving the Earth? Things you CAN do that matter:
Set your thermostat for your house a couple degrees higher in summer, and a couple degrees lower in winter. It'll have 10x more impact.
Lobby your legislature to end daylight savings time. Interesting study from Indiana--when they decided to finally adopt it around 2006, it actually increased costs over the year by about 1%. (Google it if you want to know more.)
Improve the insulation in your home. Your wallet will thank you in the long run.
Don't live in northern climates. It's actually cheaper to cool your house in the terms of greenhouse gases than to heat it.
Have public transportation in your area? Use it. Or ride a bicycle instead of the car. A third option is to use a carpool. In large metro areas this is actually the ideal way of commuting due to traffic volume (well, not in LA where everyone has to drive everywhere for some reason), but in more moderate sized cities, at least in the US, nearly everyone drives their own vehicle and public transits usually suffer due to the decreased riders.)
People in USA are the issue. With them gone we would have so much less problems.
MagicManICT wrote:Don't live in northern climates. It's actually cheaper to cool your house in the terms of greenhouse gases than to heat it.
Or maybe just killurself.
If you are dead you can not consume natural resources.
But dont only kill yourself. Kill AS MANY people as you can, more you kill = more environment is saved!
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if you want to tell how to reduce impact on environment, telling people to give up everything they have and move to africa in order to save on heating costs is just idiotic.
Improve the insulation in your home. Your wallet will thank you in the long run.
Do you want us to live in cold countries or not. decide already.
Set your thermostat for your house a couple degrees higher in summer, and a couple degrees lower in winter. It'll have 10x more impact.
Where did you get this number?
If you want to protect environment, you also have to start eating only plants.
Or at the very least, greatly decrease your consumption of meat.
But if you have to eat meat, eat chicken. Its still very bad for environment, but less bad than things like beef.
Recycling and sorting your waste is also essential. But Im pretty sure that everyone is doing this already, except maybe some poor countries in africa. Right?
You should also use genetically modified plants, as much less space is required to farm them. You should buy ones that are close to you, as transporting them around the globe costs lot of energy.
Saving things like water is also essential, as it takes lot of energy to to clean it. If you like to take showers sometimes, take less of them, shorter, with colder water.
Most water is used in products you use. For example, if you are wearing a shirt made of cotton, which is likely. You are wearing 2000 liters of water. Around 2000 liters of clean water was used to make that shirt. Its a lot of water.
Saving other things is important as well. If you buy new plastic bag each time you go to store. Its the most wasteful thing you can do. Think about how many plastic bags you buy in your life, now remember that there are 5 billion other people on this planet, what if they buy the same amount of plastic bags?
by shubla » Sat Mar 25, 2017 8:16 am 
