It is not just governments that must act to limit the consequences of climate change. All actions for the planet count and each individual is invited to participate. As citizen-consumer, we all have our share of responsibility to limit our collective impact on the environment.
When we try toact for the planet at his (humble) level, it is very difficult to navigate. So how do you do it?
What are the right actions for the planet?
Well, I’m not going to ask you to pee in the shower, to eat tofu at every meal or to go shopping in bulk. I will tell you about individual stocks that have a real impact on greenhouse gas emissions (and therefore global warming).
As soon as we are interested in the subject, we are led to make tough choices to identify the right actions for the planet:
- Is it better to eat local, over-packaged fruits and vegetables or a product that comes from afar but without packaging?
- Can we still afford to eat tropical fruits like bananas or avocados?
- Is it better to go bulk shopping by car or walk to the local convenience store?
And then there is the questions we don’t really want to ask ourselves because we fear to know the answer:
- What is the impact if I lower my thermostat by one degree?
- What if I stop replacing my cell phone every two years because I have a lot of points with my operator?
So how do you navigate through all of this?
There is a simple way forward, a strategic approach. I will give you the three steps to set up actions that have an impact on global warming.
1. Your personal carbon footprint
How to find your way among everything you see on the internet? There are a lot of sites that give you ideas but are not necessarily suitable for your situation: for example, take your bike to work. OK, but I live 25 km away!
The first step in finding the right idea, one that will have an impact and one that suits you, is to analyze your lifestyle and determine which of your habits emit the most greenhouse gases.
The easiest way to do this is to carry out your personal carbon footprint. I recommend the site Avenirclimatique.org.
The questionnaire is well constructed and easy to understand. To take stock of the energy of your home, what you consume in electricity and gas, you can enter the amount of your last bills and the site automatically assesses the energy consumption.
It is much easier to enter the amount of an invoice in euros rather than entering your annual gas consumption in Kw / h.
For each answer we give, we get the level of CO2 emissions associated. For example: in the field of food, I see that it is my consumption of dairy products that emits the most CO2. What a revelation!
We therefore have all the necessary material for the second step which is the passage to action but be careful not just any old way[[
2. Be ambitious but without haste
The mistake when we want to take action these pains do everything at the same time when we go to take stock we will see lots of ideas we will want to do lots of things and then finally do nothing what it takes c ” is to set up about one individual action per month and to start you can choose the area you have the most emissions with the carbon footprint
Then you can access the subdomains and choose an action that will respond to a problem here are some ideas to help you but it is not sure that it is suitable for your situation:
- Eat less beef?
- Stop changing your cell phone every two years?
- Stop taking the plane when we could go by train
- Lower your heating by 1 degree?
It is up to you to choose your actions according to your carbon footprint and your lifestyle if you never succeed, I can help you on which position you want to improve your carbon footprint and I will answer you
If every month you put in place a new action, at the end of the year you will have put in place twelve actions that have an impact but for that it must last
3. The collateral benefits
The last step is to assess what I call the collateral benefits and this is what guarantees that the actions are anchored in the long term and that these actions are no longer experienced as the constraint that we put on ourselves at the beginning.
Reducing your meat consumption, for example, will save you money, if you lower your heating by 1 degree, you may have to bring out a big sweater when you don’t change your tent every two years, you also save money and then we avoid wasting time to save the data transfer.
and then of his life from a new environment good ok for this point it’s not crazy but I still wanted to find an advantage to have the same laptop for four years and a weak battery
So let’s go go do your carbon footprint choose an action and put the slightest comment so I can reassure you I will not hold you accountable but having written an action will allow you to stay the course and
if you need help ask for months for comments understand then act this is the key to having a measured impact the collateral benefits this is the key to lasting
