Changes that are needed

You can feel it in the air. Change is coming whether we heed it or not. We cannot continue to trash the planet as we are doing. Social and income inequality cannot continue to reach record heights.

So, what might change look like? It will either be planned and rational, or violently forced upon is by relentless nature. The future will be multi-faceted and complicated. We will need to make personal changes and system changes. Here is a list of the actions needed.

Personal lifestyle changes

- Go vegetarian

- No more fossil fuel cars, go EV

- Get rid of single-use plastic containers, instead use glass, paper and reusable containers

- Use mass transit

- Reduce population growth

- Reduce air travel, increase Zoom meetings

- Protect trees and plant new ones

- Grow and eat more local foods

- Install solar panels whenever possible

- Use air conditioners as little as possible, instead use nighttime cool air and use basement cool air.

- Bicycle and walk more

- Use all your clothes and appliances longer – repair when needed

- Declutter, get rid of unnecessary things

- Consume less, buy less

- Fix it up, rather than buy a new one

- Eat less, exercise more

System changes

- Lobby government to stop subsidizing and funding fossil fuels, and instead support renewable green energies

- Lobby governments to cut back drastically on military spending

- Demand that governments drastically revise tax laws; institute a realistic progressive tax structure whereby ultra-rich tax evasions are eliminated, and the wealthy pay their share for the changes that are needed

- Use nuclear energy power plants until they expire, but don’t build any new ones. Instead, use the money saved to develop renewable energies.

- Only develop renewable energy. Keep fossil fuels in the ground, except for limited hard plastics.

 

Impossibly complex, you say? It won’t happen, you say. Yes it will, either by revolutionary planned revisions or by catastrophic events that will force to us to change our ways. Take your pick.

Rebellious Seeker

Thursday, 18 August 2022