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What simple changes should people do in their lives to make a positive impact on climate change? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I do believe the biggest impact would come from regulating large companies and billionaires, but it’s not one or the other.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This isn't really an option in the US. The fossil fuel and car industries colluded heavily to kill or limit public transit options through the country. Same with bike friendly infrastructure. We really do have to break up all the big corporations and tax, imprison, or eliminate the billionaires and multi multi millionaires to force them to change their behaviors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep. My area technically has a county bus service, but it only visits each stop 3 or 4 times a day. Throw in the fact that even if you're lucky there's a "bike lane" that's about a meter wide and all the cars completely ignore. Just not at all an option

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've read somewhere that it's become quite dangerous to be a pedestrian/cyclist over the last few decades in the USA

Where I live we have a major intersection and the drivers looking to make a right turn are looking left to see if any cars are coming ( at 40 mph ) they're not looking right where a person is standing waiting for the walk sign to come on. When the walking sign comes on , the drivers make the right turn and only notice that a person is walking then; they swerve around you in shock and disbelief... IK this because it's happened to me numerous/countless times...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If only we could all rely on each other n our communities ( to share food and water ) , n if we could all go on a massive strike / protest all at once ... Maybe then we could get the government to listen to us... But that ain't happening... We're all too divided to act as one

And now with mass surveillance and AI; I figure we really don't stand a chance when 🪧 protesting...

I've no hope that things will get better... For Us or Them (other countries)... Global inequality is growing each year quickly