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Climate Change point of view of everything

If/when you are convinced that climate change menace is real and the risk is very important, one of the most relevant questions is what can I do?

Of course, there is not a single or simple answer, there are many evident possibilities as:

  • Stay informed about the issue.
  • Talk about it with family, friends, neighbours. Discuss about the importance of the subject. The more people convinced about it the easier will be taking difficult measures.
  • Collaborate with campaigns, associations, … related with CC and/or support them.
  • And something very important, live in a more sustainable way.  Important but difficult in many cases. Many small decisions affect, nearly anything may be related to CC in some aspect for example the choice between ebook or paper book or   , even the icelandic volcano can be understood from CC point of view. This is one of the obsessions of people worried by this problem like me and a great sport for many webs .

And, of ocurse, if we are able to change our lifes we will have made a big step but not everybody is equally convinced, even if he/her is supportin CC strugle. Changing everyday lifes is not easy for anyone and we have many things to think about, so I think that making priorities is a key issue because not all the presonal choices have the same effect and we need real changes to endorse this long-term global chalenge

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Earth Day

Today is the earth day. I do not know if this day is more to ask for improvements or to welcome the achievements, but I feel myself quite pessimistic. I do not consider myself pessimist about climate change in general, just feel pessimistic today.
Maybe one reason is that I listened in the TV to Xavier Sala-i-Martin, an important economist teaching at Columbia university. He talked mainly about economy and it is quite interesting in this subject, but at the same time he is convinced that climate change should be the least important of human global priorities, far behind of malaria or AIDS.

I agree with him in one point: we can not solve everything at the same time, the resources are limited, and many important problems have to be faced. However, I am convinced that this issue is more a mid to long term investment than an expenditure because if we do not act it will worsen many other problems and create new unexpected ones. And the poorest ones will be the first to notice it, after them we will all be affected in some way. Because climate affects harvests, food security, malaria mosquito scope,…

Nevertheless, likely investing to reduce hunger or many illnesses will help to do more actions against climate change because people starving is not able to worry about mid to long term risks with strange names.

What is first, the hen or the egg?

Maybe the actions/projects that help for globally satisfactory improvements.

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Here I Start

This is my first post ever, I do not if the first of a long list or maybe one of the few. It is just a trial in many senses.
But I want to try because I feel I have something to say about climate change.
I am not an expert, just a worried citizen with some scientific backgound (studied physics and work in applied research).
I am not a fluent english speaker, just try myself to communicate in most spoken language.
However I want to share my ideas and points of view about climate change because I consider it very important now and key for our future. It should be a global priority and I want to express myself about it.

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