{"id":21174,"key":"Taking_action","title":"Taking action","latest":{"id":1208221,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T23:45:03Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Climate Emergency Sitdown protest.jpg|thumb]]\n\nThe problems and suffering in the world today, and more drastic challenges that might be facing us in future (especially [[climate change]]) demand that we take action. This page covers two ways of doing it:\n\n* [[Taking action#Activism|Activism]], as a way to actively try to make a change on your community by influencing governments and other members of it.\n* [[Green living]], as a change in lifestyle in order to acquire practices that try to avoid having a negative impact on the planet.\n\nGreen living is good and we recommend it. However, your actions as a single individual will have a much greater impact if they influence your community and society, and let society see an alternative that they find both achievable and attractive.\n\n== Activism ==\n\nCivil disobedience works, at least in some societies at some times.<ref>It seems less likely to work in a brutal non-democratic regime.</ref> Community blockades, and other actions by groups such as Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd continue in this tradition of action.\n\nThe aim is to get attention for a cause, and sympathy from influential people. (The most important influential people are usually voters, but getting attention from media is one way of doing this.) Long concerted action is generally needed - governments generally do not change course because of one protest or one case of civil disobedience.\n\n[http://web.archive.org/web/20210127072110/http://www.beyondtalk.net/ BeyondTalk.net (Climate Pledge of Resistance)] points out that during the Great Depression, it was only massive pressure from citizens, often including civil disobedience, that [http://web.archive.org/web/20111010191519/http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_liberal_shock_doctrine allowed President Roosevelt] to make changes that most Americans now take for granted.\n\n{{Quote|I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it.|attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt|speaking to a group of reformers}}\n\nConsumers have a lot of power if they get together and make mass campaigning:\n\n* Contact your energy company and tell them you would like to get only electricity from renewable wind-, solar-, hydro-, wave- power, and that they should stop using coal-power-plants.\n* Contact your local garbage collecting company and the local council and tell them about centralized composting projects (like the one in Gävle, Sweden<ref>[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http://gastrikeatervinnare.se/ga/ga_sida.aspx%3Fid%3D610&prev=_t&twu=1 Info about centralized composting in the city of Gävle, Sweden www.gastrikeatervinnare.se]</ref>), they can collect food waste in separate bins and out of that create soil, and sell it back to consumers. The more we can sort out and put in different recycling schemes, the less amount of trash is ending up in landfills.\n\n== Green living ==\n\n{{Excerpt|Green living}}\n\n== Notes ==\n\n<references />\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Climate change gallery, Deforestation gallery, Environmental degradation gallery, Whaling gallery\n| description = Appropedia shares easy ways to take action for sustainability. Learn how everyday choices and local organizing can help the planet.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Activism]]"}