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For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record (www.abc.net.au)

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The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[-] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

What can we do as the little individual people that we are?

[-] p1mrx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The best you can realistically do is vote for people who care about solving the problem, and against people who ignore the problem.

[-] ArcticCircleSystem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And if the only ones who don't accept ~~bribes~~ lobbying from oil, gas, and coal companies are independents and third parties who have no chance of winning anything because your country's voting system is first past the post? Then what? ~Strawberry

[-] p1mrx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

Going vegan would help for sure. Less animal products consumed means less animal products produced means waay less pollution.

A lot of change needs to happen on a government-level too, of course, but that is a very tangible, easy-to-achieve goal everyone can do.

[-] icosahedron@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago

Realistically, as an individual? Nothing. I hate doom posting but i genuinely don’t think there is a single tangible change any one regular person could make.

[-] guyman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We can all do our part. That doesn't mean the problems will be solved, but we can all do our part to implement the solution.

Discussion is important. Conservation is important. The biggest issue here isn't really the individual; it's society. Change can't happen in a vacuum. The only way society will change is if, you know, it changes. i.e. people need to be willing to sacrifice short term gains for long term benefit.

If it was sexy to do less, these problems would be solved overnight.

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