Understand
The climate does not respond to what we emit this year, but to everything accumulated over a century and a half, which is why nothing stops the day we stop. That inertia cuts both ways: it makes the effects slow to arrive, and slow to recede. It is also what makes the subject discouraging, when in fact every tonne avoided counts exactly as much as the last one.
Take action
- Turn the heat down one degree and put on a sweater. It is the cheapest win in the house, and it costs nothing.
- Bundle your errands into one trip instead of several back-and-forths.
- Swap one meat meal a week. One, not all of them, that is what actually lasts.
- Keep your devices longer. Most of a phone's footprint is already spent before you first switch it on.
- Talk about it around you without lecturing. The subject moves mostly through ordinary conversations.
Guides
Coming soonResources coming soon
Organizations
Coming soonOrganizations coming soon
Tools
Coming soonTools coming soon
Did you know?
Coming soonFact coming soon
Go further
1.5 °C: the threshold we passed without crossing2024 passed 1.5 °C. In the same press release, in capitals, the WMO wrote that this is not the crossing of the Paris threshold. Both are true.7 min read
Methane is gone in nine years. CO₂ never is.Two gases, two clocks. Methane leaves, CO₂ stays, and in the same passage the WMO warns that this does not make methane the priority.7 min read
The individual carbon footprint, at the scale of the problem“It changes nothing” against “if everyone did their part”. UNEP publishes, every year, the figure both camps are missing.7 min read
Myth and reality
"My habits weigh nothing next to heavy industry."
The two are not in opposition: industry makes what gets bought. A single habit on its own weighs little, true, but it shifts demand, it makes a practice normal to those around you, and it makes arguing the opposite in public much harder.