What we need to do to fight climate change.

It is a big job, and the "Science is the future" motto of the 1950s played a huge part in creating the issue.  Places like Egypt need to start looking at solar, at using garbage to fuel electricity generation (in fact, more countries need to do that).  I've seen how much trash my neighbors throw out.   If you just used the trash output of Farmington....  you could probably have something that paid for itself.  

Solar in more places.  

Smaller farms, fewer manmade chemicals.  Bring back animal husbandry in the smaller farms for a richer ecosystem, because the poop, etc feeds the soil, most animals (particularly pigs) can take the leftovers/scraps/etc.    Its a circle.   And we are actually suffering from the lack of the circle because our gut bacteria are not as plentiful as they were.

A lot of the fertilizers out there that are used commercially are made from oil.  

Other things sourced from oil?  Mineral oil, vaseline, plastic.  Our roads.  Anything tarmac.   Plastic plastic plastic. styrofoam.

We have way too much plastic.

We need to go back to cardboard, paper, ceramic, glass.  Cloth bags.   Even the paper ice cream cartons are actually lined with a layer of plastic.   (it used to be wax, once upon a time).  Trying to figure out how to cut plastic is hard.    Even my fridge does have plastic in it, does have ziplocks.  

Everything is plasticized.

We need to stop covering new appliances with plastic that peels off and goes in the trash.  Everything I buy seems to come plasticized.  

And plastic is really only recyclable once.   So you can buy things made from recycled plastic, which is all well and good, but..   they still end up in the landfill, in the oceans.

I keep wondering if there is a way to use old plastic bags as pavement material.   There have got to be more solutions.  

We need to stop lighting up empty parking lots, roadways, etc.  Bring back dark skies.    We really don't need the Trader Joe's sign on when the store is closed.   Or all the lights on in empty hallways.  We have motion sensors, we have options, sensors in the roads, or cellphone signals or, or, or.    How many office skyscrapers are completely lit up when no-one is home?

We need to start building for walking.   And we need to figure out greener transportation.  Bike lanes.  Minibuses for off-peak hours.  I keep seeing buses with one person in them.  

We need to think outside the box, people.

I had a conversation with my mother the other day.  The traffic is so bad in Cairo that the guy who helps my dad has real trouble getting there on time.   I suggested maybe talking with some of the other residents of the building and seeing if they can organize some kind of community pickup/carpool of their servants.  And my mom was amazed, because that thought had never crossed her mind, or seeing if there was a community solution.    I doubt it will happen, but again, we need to think outside the box.