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What Can You Do?

Three Vital Behaviors

1. First Vital Behavior—Educate yourself and others about climate change, including solutions. Hold one another emotionally through this process.

2. Second Vital Behavior—Stand on an accurate greenhouse gas (GHG) scale. Work with others to reduce your GHG emissions 10% this year. This gives the activist a realistic sense of what helps and what blocks voluntary behavior change, which is a necessary part of the solution.


3. Third Vital Behavior—Find a solution that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says is necessary and important, ideally one that makes you uncomfortable. Learn why policy analysts say it's necessary, and advocate for it. The goal is to move away from choosing solutions we want, to working for solutions that are recognized as essential.

Hard issues

There are a number of hard issues that legislators can't tackle until the public does.


Invite us to give a presentation (The whole series is Sessions I - VII):

Vital Behavior 1: Teach the science and impacts of climate change, and hold people emotionally during the process.

Vital Behavior 2: Stand on an accurate greenhouse gas scale. Make a plan to reduce your GHG emissions 10% in the coming year, and work with others to reduce theirs.


Vital Behavior 3: Find a solution policy experts say is both necessary and important, one that makes you uncomfortable. Learn why it is needed, and advocate for it.


Summary




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