Best products from r/ClimateActionPlan

I hate to be a corporate shill, but the products these guys produce is amazing.

I use the hypoallergenic laundry soap (the one that comes in a cardboard bottle) and their dishwasher soap and they both work like a charm, and they aren’t that much more expensive than alternatives that are more harmful for the planet.

Also the dishwasher soap works like a charm and it gets anything off dishes 99% of the time, even if it’s the most caked on thing in the universe.

Properly managed, rotating cattle/livestock herds actually replenish soils ala Joel Salatin. The Earth already has great mechanisms for producing soils, so my sense is that we should support those mechanisms. Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth is a great book on the subject.

Good for you on choosing to dedicate your life to this goal. May I make a suggestion? Research stoicism. Hope will fail you and leave you worse off than ever before. Stoic determination in the face of uncountable odds will carry you through. Check out Marcus Aurelius book 'Meditations' or the works if Seneca or Epictetus. Start here: https://dailystoic.com/stoic-reading-list/ I would also recommend reading about how stoicism can help in your daily life by reading about James Stockdale and his experiences in the Vietnam war here: https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-Philosophical-Fighter-Pilot-Reprint/dp/0817993924

Good luck to you! Live bravely.

To kick things off, here's a couple of things I'm doing.

• Giving up on single use plastics and non-recyclable material when I can. I didn't realize that bags of chips and candy bar wrappers can't be recycled, and go to the landfill. So I'm axing those out of my life, but will indulge for occasions such as parties and what not. I bought a bunch of potatoes that I'll slice up and throw into the oven to replace chips.
  
  
• Getting some eco-friendly floss picks because turns out floss/floss picks go to the landfill.
  
  
• Looking to begin my entry into hydroponics by trying out the kratky method to grow some lettuce.
  
  
• Limiting my beef consumption to only a few times a week. I've already begun to eat more vegetarian meals and cook them as well. I usually am only getting beef in the morning in a breakfast burrito.
  
  
• Considering cutting out coffee :( I started to think about it and turns out that there's only two areas in the US where coffee is grown and that's in Hawaii and California. So unless that coffee is from California, a lot of emissions are given off during transport.
  
  
• Related to this, looking to not buy food that's shipped from overseas. I was going to buy some bok choy and noticed that it was from Shanghai of all places. Glad to see my local QFC is labeling if the produce comes from overseas.

This book will give you some great insights into the oil industry and what is happening to democracy - I'm half through it, fracking is explored in depth:

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia's influence, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow

You know how I said that I don't like newspaper writings? Your link is to an OPINION piece, which is even worse! Also, coincidentally, the author of that opinion piece has a new (fiction) book about geopolitical chaos

and this piece goes through the substance of the article, picking it apart

Thank you for this. I would add that collective action and government action can do tremendous things in short amounts of time. To anyone feeling down, read up on the history of the Dust Bowl, the New Deal, and how America mobilized for WW2. We weren't prepared for any of those problems/programs, but we pulled it off. Here's a some recommended reading:

Short: Where Our New World Begins, in this month's Harpers, offers up a vivid picture of what the Dust Bowl was like, and how the New Deal stepped in to transform the country.

Long: Destructive Creation, by Mark Wilson, about how the US government went gangbusters to create the raw materials and machinery needed to fight WW2.

What I'm trying to say: this may be first time that Americans my age have faced this type of existential despair, but it's certainly not the first time that generations have stared down calamity. I'd argue going as far back as the Civil War is instructive: an entire economy was based on slavery, things seemed impossible to change, and yet a small group of abolitionists agitated for years until finally the reckoning came.

This is the cycle of history, I'm glad to be in it with you all because I know we'll change this world for the better.