TalkClimateChange

It’s often hard to be ecologically virtuous. We recently wrote about the things that most people can’t do to prevent climate change, and today we’ve been reading the results of a survey describing the top five sins of climate change.

So once we confess our climate sins, what can we do by way of penance?

We started a list..

•  You can fill up your SUV with biofuel, making a minuscule but still real contribution to the fight against climate change. Don’t worry about the impact of biofuel on world hunger, you can confess to that sin in a different church.
• You can take a trip to the recycling center so that your bottles, paper, cardboard, plastic and rotting vegetable peelings may be reinvested in Mother Earth. Don’t worry about the fact that recycling is often environemntaly negative, recycling feels virtuous because it is so annoying to actually do.
• You can buy a carbon offset to make your next holiday fully carbon neutral. Try not to think about the rich city types who are making a packet out of your conscience and the fact that there is absolutely no guarantee that your hard earned cash will make any difference anyway.
• You can plant a tree. Trees are good, we like trees. Make sure you don’t undo this good deed next week by buying a Christmas Tree - remember Greenies are not supposed to enjoy themselves.
• You can make a clear statement by leaving indignant comments on climate change websites about the lack of political action being taken over climate change - It’s always best to divert the attention away from your own actions and blame somebody else.

What are your suggestions for making good on the error of our ways?