NY Times: Individuals Can Totally Do Their Part In Fighting Hotcoldwetdry

This NY Times article on Doing Something seems more like something from the first decade of the century in their ideas

In Fighting Climate Change, What’s an Individual to Do?

Climate change can seem like such an enormous problem that individual actions would have little impact. Consider Europe’s wide-ranging proposals this week to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, including eliminating sales of new gas- and diesel-powered cars in the next 14 years.

But people can have an impact, experts say, both by how they spend their money and how they spend their time.

Mary Weathers Case, for instance, chose to offset the carbon cost of a cross-country plane trip for her family through the site Gold Standard. Dr. Case, a psychiatrist who lives in South Salem, N.Y., with her husband and two children, said she had been reading and watching more news about climate change during the pandemic and had been motivated to do her part after hearing about the searing temperatures in the West.

What surprised her, though, was that after spending $3,000 on plane tickets to Portland, Ore., she could offset that carbon for $150.

Or, they could simply not take fossil fueled flights. Carbon offsets are like paying tickets because you refuse to stop speeding. And most Warmists refuse to stop speeding. And most won’t pay for offsets for their world killing behavior.

With certain investments — namely those that reduce or remove carbon from the atmosphere — there are defined ways to measure their environmental impact. With others, like water conservation, the metrics are not as clear because there isn’t an agreed upon unit to measure.

Climate change has little to do with the environment.

When Leah Weinberg, owner and creative director of Color Pop Events, which plans weddings, was moving from Long Island City, N.Y., to Forest Hills in Queens, she found a company that had done away with cardboard boxes. Instead, the company, Movers, Not Shakers, provides the plastic, flip-top boxes that retailers like CVS use to deliver products to stores.

Using less cardboard is environmental. However, those plastic boxes are made with petrochemicals, and even if the trucks use biodiesel, that has been called bad for climate change, too.

This ethos can be woven into however people spend their money. Paul Greenberg, whose new book is “The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Diet,” said continuing to work from home at least a few days a week was one significant way to reduce the carbon emissions from driving a car. But such decisions are not always so straightforward.

Take buying clothes. A shirt made with a synthetic material, like polyester, which is derived from petrochemicals, is more carbon-intensive than a cotton shirt. But that cotton shirt requires huge amounts of water to produce — more water than a person drinks in a year, Mr. Greenberg’s research found. His recommendation? Consider buying used clothing.

Some choices are harder than others. Dogs and cats may be beloved companions, but they are carnivores that are bad for the environment. “If you had a choice between a carnivorous dog and a guinea pig that eats seeds,” Mr. Greenberg said, “go with the guinea pig.”

My goodness, these people are nags, and just need to mind their own f’ing business. But, hey, you can also replace all your natural gas burning appliances. Because that’s cheap, right? And what happens to the old unit? They forget to mention that

Solar panels have grown in popularity, as their costs have fallen and their efficiency has increased. Milton Ross, who has owned a brownstone in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood since 1979, no longer has an electric bill because of the panels he had installed on his roof.

“My system back in 2015 was around $30,000,” Mr. Ross said. “My neighbors don’t do it because of the cost. I used my home equity line of credit, and I could claim the interest as a tax deduction. It just made sense to me. Meanwhile, everything is all paid back, and I don’t have an electric bill anymore.”

Well, sure, cheaper, but, can most people afford $10,000 plus to get some extra power for the house which won’t repay itself for decades?

Dr. Case said she would feel better when she and her family moved to Brooklyn this summer and got rid of one car and started walking more in their neighborhood. She’s also committed to buying things locally and not ordering them online.

Get rid of the other car. What can she buy locally? Most food and goods are grown/manufactured outside of NYC. These are just old miniscule ideas from well over a decade ago. Time for Warmists to practice what they preach. No fossil fueled travel, no AC, no ice makers, short showers, live in 300 square foot homes, no flushable toilets, and so much more.