Solutions: Pollution

Summary——————–Overview——————–Solutions

ALL SCALES

• Implement a carbon tax that increases over time.
• Adopt the 3 Rs.
• Improve temperature control.
• Reduce passenger and freight transportation needs.
• Reduce the food system’s emissions by producing/purchasing sustainable foods.
• Become a more responsible company by prioritizing sustainable solutions and informing consumers of their purchases’ impacts.
• Become a more responsible consumer by lowering your need for material possessions.
• Reduce residential and commercial land use to slow down urban expansion.
• Reduce waste and improve waste management.
• Think of a product’s life-cycle impacts before purchasing it.
• Think solutions through to make sure the environment won’t suffer long-term side effects.
• Reduce the need for high-tech and replace it with more sustainable low-tech solutions.
• Reduce the agricultural sector’s pollution to the environment with sustainable practices and eco-friendlier purchases.
• Abandon the fast-fashion mentality.
• Protect forests and other green eco-systems and help remediate those we have already damaged.
• Reduce freshwater consumption, pollution, and waste.
• Think about the dangers of pollution, for both natural environments and humans.
• Provide higher-quality education to populations around the world, without discrimination.
• Reduce the heavy industry’s emissions with efficiency advances, smarter purchases, or no purchases.
• Use your wealth to help the environment, not to pollute it.
• Use your influence to advocate for change and take action.
• Beware of money-fueled climate change deniers and greenwashing.
• Don’t lose hope, there’s no other option.