Taking action

So, i know i'm two whole months late in posting this, but i thought that the way in which Mr. Matthias Gelber phrased the message that he wanted to send was really apt and inspiring.

You don't have to take part in a flash mob, or stand for hours in a protest, to take action. Because, as he put it, it's all about individual action on the ground.

"We have control over our own lives. We have control over our own carbon footprint. What is your carbon footprint? What are you to doing to compensate it, to make it carbon neutral, and even more important to turn yourself into a massive carbon sink? If we were all to be massive carbon sinks, then we don’t need to worry anymore about the political decisions out there.

Turn yourself into a carbon sink.

Compensate your CO2 emissions.

Plant trees.

Lets all turn ourselves into carbon sinks in 2010 and make action happen that way."

In other words, go hug a tree. It's not cool to turn your head and shrug at the issue at climate change anymore. It is the culprit of so many disasters that has affected and taken so many, many lives -- it has now become a humanitarian issue.

Simple steps to reduce YOUR carbon footprint --

• going at 90 km/h instead of 110 km/h while you're on the highway

• using a coffee mug instead of disposable cups which can barely be recycled

• unplugging electronic devices such as TVs and media players, instead of letting it go into standby

• cut down on your electricity bill. Save money AND cut carbon emission

• decrease your meat consumption. Domestic animals belch methane, which retains 23 times more heat than CO2. That's global warming, my friends.
  

If 3.5 million people turn off their TV for an entire day, that's 3 MILLION pounds of carbon pollution cut.

Do you see now what you can do?

"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

- Howard Zinn

Sedikit demi sedikit, lama menjadi bukit.

How will you go about in taking up the challenge to fight climate change today?