Perhaps the single most asked question, and it is asked in countless ways, is this.  “What is the single most important thing that an individual can do to help stop global warming?”  This is also perhaps the hardest question to answer…   It is almost impossible to separate off the single most important thing that one can do.

Pehaps the best answer to that question is, “It depends.”  It depends on what your habits are, and which of them is most wasteful, or which of them is very wasteful but easy to change.  It depends upon what it is that you do, your position in life.  Are you a young person in school?  Are you a parent, a teacher, an office worker a professional, a business owner, a politician?  It depends upon how shy or bold you are.  Are you willing to talk to others, be a teacher, a leader, or just willing to be a noodge (Yiddish, meaning ‘nag’)?

Gosh, a whole page on ‘It Depends’, and we haven’t really even answered the initial question, “What is the single most important thing that someone can do to stop global warming?”  Well, the single most important thing you can do is… is… to set yourself a goal, to make a committment to each and every day think of the most important thing you can do THAT DAY to stop global warming.  And try as often as you can to make it something new, something you have not thought of or done before.  Find some new habit of waste that has been so transparent to you that you have not seen it until that day… take aim at that habit… change it.

Dive deep and make changing your way of being in the world a different way of being, one with more respect for the limitations of the planet, one with more focus on the intangible (as well as the tangible) relationships between things.

Perhaps, may we be so bold as to suggest that you bookmark the ClimateCorps website, and every day read one more page… or review one that you’re even read before.  And perhaps the most important thing you can do to stop global warming is to spread your concern and interest to others.

The future of life on earth is in our collective hands.  Our actions and inactions today will be felt by generations to come.