To stop the heat, we have to stop the pollution. Fast. That requires systematic change to the policies, incentives, and cultural norms that continue allowing and prioritizing the fossil fuels that are killing us. Here are just some of the ways you can help drive a rapid shift toward awareness, resilience, sustainability, and literal human survival.
Join or start a climate group in your area.
Then Protest! Disrupt! Be loud!
Local action is visible and powerful. There are hundreds of US chapters of many flavors of national organizations, along with so many incredible local groups. (Try searching “[CITY] + climate group” to find them). If there’s not a group near you, this is your sign to start one.
Read more: Disruptive protest helps rather than hinders activists’ cause, experts say
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Cut your consumption of meat and Big Oil products like gas, methane, and plastic — or boycott them if you can.
And encourage others to do so, too. We won’t phase fossil fuels oil with individual action alone — and these changes remain more difficult in a system that favors pollution as the default choice — but taken collectively, our individual behaviors do have meaningful impact on emissions, corporate actions, and social norms.
Read more: 12 ways to phase fossil fuels out of your life
Urge elected leaders to act. If there is a candidate who is ready to fight for climate action, support them.
Read more: Climate change opinions swing voting and elections in the U.S.
Move your money from banks that are using it to fund fossil fuels and destroy the future.
Read more: Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal
Talk about climate day-to-day.
Spread the facts.
If you don’t tell people you care, they will assume you don’t. But if you talk to them, they’ll start to care and act, too.
Read more: Here’s Why Talking About Climate Change Might Be The Most Important Thing You Can Do
Boycott news media that takes oil advertising money and helps big oil spread disinformation.
Including Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, New York Times, Politico, Reuters, and the Washington Post. Outlets rejecting fossil fuel ads include The Guardian, Vox Media (Vox, New York Magazine), Inside Climate & Heat Map. Here are a few of our go-to sources of climate news:
Read more: LEADING NEWS OUTLETS ARE DOING THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY’S GREENWASHING
If your job is connected to big oil, quit, leak info to reputable journalists, or become a whistleblower.
Read more: Climate whistleblowers.
