What is the biggest impact you can make on the environment?

Question

I know that in order to protect and help conserve our environment and Planet Earth, it all starts with ourselves, but I 'd like to ask what is the biggest method to create a significant impact that helps the environment.

At the same time, I 'd also like to ask how you help to conserve the environment in your daily lives, for example, at work, at home and everywhere/ anywhere else.

Answer 1

It's gonna be hard to answer your question with just a few lines, but I'll try. The first thing a common man can do is to decrease waste or actually zero it. When I mean waste, I mean food, water, electricity, gasoline, heating oil, and general comsumption. When consumption decreases, so does the demand, and with a decrease in demand, lesser energy will be used to produce what is necessary.

Large wholesale stores sell large quantities of discounted food at very low prices. A good percent of the people who buy this end up wasting some or all of it. By doing so, the wholesale store benefits bigtime due to larger sales, the consumer loses due to waste, and the general demand for commodities increases, keeping the business cycle running.

It would be a good idea to consume only what you feel is necessary like maybe live in a smaller house, drive a fuel efficient car, use public transportation when you can, not wasting food, water, and power, etc. Also worth doing is to install energy efficient appliances at home (if you own one), when you replace appliances.

Answer 2

Help to destroy the scam of GW.The oil co. are making billions . Just follow the money.

Answer 3

This isn't really what I could do, but I recon you will find the link more than interesting.

http://www.lammas.org.uk/

Answer 4

not destroy it ..... and be as green as possible.....

Answer 5

Become a Robin Hood... stealing from the rich, but burying the money so that nobody gets to spend it on more and more garbage. Now we can do that by increasing taxes, let us say to pay off the national debt, the state debt, or the urban debt.

Our recent history in political life has been to encourage teh 'economy' to run a full blast to keep us all employed.

To be blunt this is the mistake we continue to make.

We need to have less economic stimulus, more belt tightening, far less wasteful spending on meaningless things.

Answer 6

Every time you need or want to go somewhere, force yourself to walk, ride a bike, or take public transportation. In fact, sell your car, if you have one. Or, if you are not old enough to drive, tell your parents that you want to use alternatives to the car to get where you're going.

Answer 7

well sometimes i tell a lot of people in a llittle town to bring there bottles,paper,cans,and any other things that can be recycled. at the end of the month we go down the the recycling plant and get mony for recycling these things. you can conserve gas by carpooling with people that work with u. dont leave the light on when your not using them, leave the ac of at night and when your not, there try to find a car that has big window or good mpg.the windows could be used instead of the ac, you can also plant more tree/or any type or plant that is very big/ to give more oxygen and take out the carbon dixide in the air, and most of all get solor pannels even though they are a lot of money they will pay of when your electric bill is 1$. hope this help you.

Answer 8

I would say conservation in as many ways as we can.  

The issue really becomes one of whether we need or want to continue being as materialistic as we are now.  A high standard of living is a positive thing, but we've gotten more than a little nutty about wanting to have absolutely everything.

To see how our consumerism  is hurting both us and the planet, watch this short video.  

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

The problem, as you'll see if you watch the movie, is not just that we want everything, but that we throw most of it away in six months.

Answer 9

I like burning old tires in my back yard,  That really gets attention.

Answer 10

The biggest impact a person could have on the environment (in a negative way) is to have a kid.   I guess if you want to impact it in a positive way you could make sure you do not have a kid.

Answer 11

Truthfully, dying is probably the thing with the biggest impact.

Short of that though (I don't think dying is numero uno on most peoples' to do lists), minimizing your use of petroleum based products as best you can is probably the highest impact thing you can do.  Even small gestures like driving a little slower, turning the heat down (or up) a degree or two, avoiding drive throughs, etc. could have a huge impact if everyone did them.