I have made a useful time-line for you. You may apply it to any tragedy. pic.twitter.com/UEn788h6U8
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) August 29, 2017
Can we talk about the CLIMATE CRISIS NOW? It’s fine for everyone to “come together” and donate and help and be all heroic, but wouldn’t it be better if we didn’t have to in the first place?
Here’s my go to resource: Climate Reality Project
This summer, I selfishly applied for and received a grant to add more insulation to my home, condition my crawl space and install a HE furnace. It cost me about 1/3 of what it would have to do it on my own. But it was still a budget hit. I am, however, looking forward to lower heating costs and warmer floors this winter. It has already greatly increased the comfort on the few 100 degree days we had this summer. Oh, sure, it will also lower my carbon footprint…but you know, comfort and $$ weighed heavily in this decision.
The reason I could do this is because my state and more importantly my county takes resource efficiency seriously, so there are funds available and strict guidelines for new builds and retrofits. Solar, wind and geothermal are all encouraged with regulations and incentives. One of my clients paid LESS for his electric car than he would have for a new gasoline vehicle, because of state and county rebates.
So that’s where I think we can fight successfully while we endure the current administration. Locally – at the city level, the county level, the state level. Or maybe just convince one person today it’s not hopeless, we can solve this, but the time is today.
There are good, smart people working on this, but they need our support, they need us to fight for them while the current administration and big oil does everything it can to hamstring them…
/rant
I am sure there many of you who can add resources to help us get involved and I’m sure there are many of you who are already doing what you can…so hit the comments and share your expertise with us.
Resources for continued hope on climate change: Al Gore, Texas Statesman Opinion article, WWF. And for a primer on what we need to do Carbon Nation. I’m looking forward to the new Inconvenient Sequel film.