one of best ways to contribute would be making your own changes to reduce waste or cut back. try not to replace your new phone for several years longer than you usually do, try and do what you can to get an electric car or try taking the bus/biking to work or school. do you have a large lawn? buy some goats instead of buying a large lawn mower. do what you can to get heat pumps and solar panels at your house, solar panels are expected to go down in price in 2023 since manufacturing capacity is expected to double in the US next year.

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it is good to try and spread the word and educate people. peer presure is real and can be a good thing, the more people are trying to treat our planet well the more likely the holdouts will gradually start making changes too. explain small changes someone can make if you see them being wasteful or something. doing small things here and there might not help much but it establishes a pattern for other people to also follow.

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also we are making progress on climate change. over the last year or two the popularity of electric vehicles and renewable energy has been skyrocketing. in 2023 china, one of worlds biggest pollutors, is expected to expand their solar capacity by 1/3, around 100 gw, which i believe i read is more solar panels than the rest of the world combined currently has (the us isnt expected to hit 50 gw solar until 2030 as comparison).