10 ways you may stop climate change and global warming

Global warming and rapid climate change that is caused and promoted by the human activity and that drastically transforms our overheating planet to such an extent that the existence of our Earth in its current form, as well is its biosphere, is highly questionable, appears to be the issue average people with no global decision-making power may influence.

The processes the humanity triggered are unbelievably difficult to reverse. Even with the common will of the countries determined to save the environment from the human-induced catastrophe and the excellent minds of the scientists that will be not the easiest thing to do. Despite the fact that numerous scientists and environmentally-aware enthusiasts are putting their lives into researching and inventing the most effective ways to eliminate the main reasons of the global warming and replace vital technologies and industries (energy sector, technology, food production, etc.) – the top contributors to the global warming – with the eco-friendly alternatives, their efforts aren’t enough.

Only if the common worldwide climate change awareness reaches the point where global leaders together with the most influential entrepreneurs and international corporation owners take active steps not just to proclaim their desire to pursue, for instance, carbon dioxide emission reduction and implementation of green energy sources obligations, but to fulfill those obligations and bear real responsibility for the failure to comply with them.

Unfortunately, some world leaders, economic influencers and politicians, who have the power to make life-changing decisions to stop global warming, refuse to even recognize the problem. They continue building and developing their economic activity on technologies, that are dreadfully harmful to the planet and its population. If the current situation change, it’s unlikely that the humanity will be able to prevent at least the most tragic consequences of the climate change in the future.

That’s why the voice and the daily choices of average people, who have direct control over their consumption and vote with their money, are so important. The more people implement eco-friendly practices into their daily routines, the more the demand for non-environmentally friendly products, services, technologies, and practices will drop.

That’s the power all of us have. That’s the power that will push global influencers to change their environmental conduct and turn to the more eco-friendly practice.

Thus, here’re a few steps any person may take to contribute to the decrease of the global warming and climate change effects and hopefully slow down or even stop that destructive process we triggered.

Get involved: 10 daily habits and routines to reduce global warming

1. Implement energy efficiency into your household when it comes to heating. House winterization (proper window isolation, house insulation, etc.) will decrease not only your energy bills both in summer and winter but also the carbon dioxide emission your house produces.
2. Use public transportation and ride your bike whenever possible to decrease the CO₂ emission and look into energy-efficient or smart cars next time you decide to change your vehicle.
3. Don’t forget to keep your car’s tires properly inflated (as it has an impact on your vehicle’s fuel consumption) and take your car to the auto repair shop for a regular check-up to keep it tuned up. Replace your vehicle’s air filters on time as well.
4. Reduce your household’s electricity consumption by replacing your light bulbs with LED ones, as each replacement will decrease the CO₂ produce up to 700 pounds over the bulb’s working time. In addition to that, they’re not as difficult to dispose as the CFL ones. Upgrading house appliances to the ones that consume less energy (look for the energy star market at the shops) and remembering to turn them off when not used will help as well.
   Air conditioners, that consume up to 40% of country’s electricity during the peak hours in summer, may be used less if the house is insulated, reflective barriers on its roof are installed and the landscape is built to create a lot of shade around the house. Read more about the ways to cut the electricity consumption due to the less active use of the A/C on Eartheasy.com and check out one of our recent articles on energy efficiency tips (look at the related posts down below).
5. Buy the food that was grown and produced within your local area to push the supermarkets place more local products on their shelves and cut the amount of fuel they use to transport different goods from other states and encourage local organic food production by transitioning to organic foods, grown without the use of chemical pollutants. production
6. Eat less meat, especially beef. Meat industry and its beef sector, in particular, is a huge contributor to the global warming issue. In fact, the industries raising animals for food emit more than 20% of greenhouse gasses.
   Thus, by making less animal-cruel choices, people make a positive difference to the global warming issue. If you’re not ready to become a vegan or a vegetarian, try to eat chicken instead of beef/pork and introduce a couple of meet-free days to your weekly meal plan.
7. Try to use your dishwasher less frequently and air-dry your clothes whenever possible.Call a plumber (find one on HireRush.com) to get your water pipes and water heaters insulated to prevent significant energy loss and, consequently, excessive CO
8. By less processed foods, cosmetics and other products that include palm oil. Its impact on your health, as well as the fact that its increasing production causes the demolition of rainforests, should make you opt for the palm oil free products.
   (In Indonesia, huge rainforest areas are burned out to free the space for the palm oil plantations; thus, palm oil production destroys rainforests – the lungs of the planet, as well as causes enormous carbon dioxide emissions caused by the forest fires).
9. Call a plumber (find one on HireRush.com) to get your water pipes and water heaters insulated to prevent significant energy loss and, consequently, excessive CO₂ production. Leave your plumbing request now
10. Minimize the household waste by purchasing wisely-packaged items, refills for the packages you already have, recycling your shopping bags, packing your lunch in reusable lunch boxes and taking reusable bags to weigh the products at the supermarket will cut the carbon dioxide and methane emissions caused by the production of the plastic packaging.