The Best Climate Resolution This Year

“Do nothing, that is the best climate resolution this year.  Everything else we (you) do seems to make no difference.  That must not stop us trying.  I’d ask one small thing.  Show your friends this website, it might just help.”

{Iain Dunn, Earth and Leaf Editorial}

 

The Best Climate Resolution This Year?

The Best Climate Resolution This Year?  Do Nothing.

Only by opting out of the Sisyphean “solutions” escalator can we unlock true climate progress.

Early January is resolution season, and in climate circles that means rehashing the same old debate: Given the enormity of the problem we’re facing, and the amount of responsibility for it that falls at the level of corporations and countries, does individual action even matter?

After all, the sum total of all climate action hasn’t gotten us to a stable place. After decades of effort—recycling, planting trees, every solar panel ever installed on a roof, all those paper straws—global warming is still accelerating. In 2024, the world burned more fossil fuels than it ever has before. Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are now surging at the fastest rate in human history. What we’re doing is not only not working, but we’re still actively making the problem worse.

Not only was 2024 the hottest year in history, it was also the first year to surpass the critical 1.5 degree Celsius threshold above which global warming will begin to accelerate on its own accord and some effects will become irreversible. We are leaping outside the normal operating space of our planet, and if scientists are to be believed, things will be getting pretty ugly pretty fast. This year, the warning signs looming would be almost comically bad if they weren’t so serious.

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