What can I do, and tell others to do, to stop global warming?

Question by Nancy Clemons on dropping knowledge (Question #51) Answers by some of the 112 international participants of the TABLE OF FREE VOICES, social visionaries from over 50 countries worldwide.

 

Angaangaq Lyberth / Greenland “The ice is going to carry on melting away. I pray to the Great One and ask him again and pray again that you and me will be able to have a life worthy of living because, no matter what you and I do today, there is no way of returning.”

Gladman Chibememe / Zimbabwe “It is a simple thing. It is a question of attitude change. Just change your attitude. It is unfortunate that people think of big things all the time.” Avi Primor / Israel “You just simply need to create a consciousness in the people. If you have a look at the Hollywood movies of the 1950s, you will notice that everyone was smoking everywhere. Nowadays smoking is almost condemned.” Simon Retallack / United Kingdom “Encourage and put pressure on our politicians, telling them you won’t vote for them unless they take action on this issue.” Kigge Hvid / Denmark “Influence your government and your representatives to ensure that the energy we use is renewable energy. In addition you also have to make sure that the question about CO2 emissions is also a question about legislation.” Bill Joy / USA “Support politicians to be elected who would support changing the policy to either advantage innovation or at least not disadvantage it. There are so many laws and policies on the book that benefit the incumbent ways of using oil, using coal.” Susan George / France, USA “The first thing is to change [the US] political leadership, because this is a leadership which does not understand the ecological measures to stop global warming would be the best economic investment that you could possibly make.” Michael P. Totten / USA “The world has just managed to build some 4,400 large power plants. Half of those could be eliminated by focusing on the efficiencies, so that you are achieving the minimum amount of waste in the transmission, distribution and generation of that process. That would free up some 24 trillion dollars.” Anuradha Mittal / India, USA “We have to focus on the local economy, that our food comes not from some faraway distant place which travels thousands of miles to come on our table. But it is really also about questioning this insane trade system which allows for this food to travel.” Helena Norberg-Hodge / Sweden “In the last 20 years, there’s been a massive shift where all of our daily needs are coming from further and further away requiring more and more precious and polluting fossil fuels to manufacture them and to transport them and to package them.” Lilian Holt / Australia “I come back yet again to Mahatma Gandhi’s wonderful words: “Let it begin with me.” I think we all know enough. We really all know what to do. We actually don’t have to ask others what we need to do.”   Mayank Mehta / India “Anybody who feels the forest and the desert and the ocean, will feel that there is something that we enjoy, there is something there worth preserving, there is something there worth keeping.” Mae-Wan Ho / United Kingdom “Some people will say that there is no way to stop global warming; it’s already too late. However, there is plenty that we can do to ameliorate the effects of global warming, or at least not make things get worse.” Elisabet Sahtouris / USA, Greece “Actually, we can’t stop global warming any more. However, we can slow it down. And slowing it down is very important because we can buy some time to prepare for this hot age coming on.”