How to Stop Climate Change

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James Walters
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How to Stop Climate Change

Here we look at; Reducing Emissions from Business and Agriculture; and How to Stop Climate Change with Regenerative Agriculture. This is part of our series on helping climate change by Growing, Eating, and Living in a Way That Could Be Sustained Forever.

Welcome to part 5 of our mini series on climate change.

In this mini series, we’re covering everything from what is climate change, the causes, the effects, and how you can help to stop climate change.

If you already know that it’s important to do something about climate change, here are the things that you can do:

  1. Check out #VoteWithOurMoney with 6 Steps to Help Stop Climate Change
  2. Try the Sustainability Roadmap with 40+ Solutions to Climate Change
  3. Use the Company Directory to Help You Grow, Eat, and Live Sustainably

If you want some more facts before making any decisions, let’s get into the details:

Here’s what we’ve covered so far;

This time we’ll cover ways to stop climate change by reducing emissions in business and agriculture then for parts 6, 7, 8, and 9 we’ll give you more things that you can do in your day to day life to help stop climate change.

So, let’s crack on with part 5 with ideas to reduce emissions in business and agriculture.

How to Stop Climate Change by Reducing Emissions from Business

As a reminder from part 4, business is the 3rd biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK (17%).

For business, the report includes emissions from fuel combustion and product use in industrial and commercial sectors, and F gas emissions from refrigeration and air conditioning in all sectors. Includes industrial off-road machinery but not business-related transport emissions, which are included in the Transport sector.

Businesses exist because of us, consumers, so that gives us the power to influence businesses so that they reduce emissions.

A great place to start is by switching to an ethical bank and transferring your pension to a sustainable and ethical fund. That’s a way to vote with our money and show businesses, and government, that we prioritise people and planet.

It’s also important to vote with our money and buy products that are sustainable, products that are good for people and planet (and our own health). You could buy products with sustainable or no palm oil or buy organic food and drink.

Here Are Some Other Ideas with Links to Read More:

Reducing Emissions from Agriculture

Agriculture is the 3rd biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK (10%).

For agriculture, the report includes emissions of greenhouse gases from livestock, agricultural soils (excluding carbon stock changes which are included in the LULUCF sector) and agricultural machinery.

I’m not a farmer, but I can still influence how food is produced. I do this by choosing the food I buy. I avoid foods that are produced in ways that degenerate our planet. I prioritise buying products that use sustainable ingredients.

I buy foods that are biodynamic, regenerative, or organic so that I vote with our money, to help farmers and food producers transition from conventional agriculture (that uses intensive ploughing, artificial fertilisers, and dangerous chemicals such as pesticides) to a way of farming that gives back more than it takes.

Agriculture is also far more than just 10% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK.

If we think back to part 3 of this mini series, Effects of Climate Change, we covered flooding, drought, and wildfires. Agriculture can be responsible for flooding, drought, and wildfire.

By intensively ploughing the land, using artificial fertilisers, dangerous chemicals, and monocrops, conventional agriculture destroys soil and releases carbon into the atmosphere.

Luckily, there’s a solution. The solution is regenerative agriculture. Regenerative agriculture can build soil, store carbon, and improve the nutrition of our food. And, it can do it quickly!

Here’s a real life example of regeneration, returning a desertified landscape to lush vegetation, on a huge scale (land the size of Denmark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-MFfVhTuM

It’s worth repeating one of the stats that I included in part 3 of this mini series:

  1. The FAO says there are 12.1 billion acres of grasslands and cropland
  2. If everyone used carbon-building practices [i.e. biodynamic or regenerative] on those acres
  3. We could remove 50 ppm of carbon from the atmosphere, in under 5 years!
  4. That gets us very close to the target of 350ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere
  5. That can happen if we buy food produced using regenerative farming

That’s why it’s so important to change the products, food, and drink that we buy, to help farmers transition to regenerative agriculture so that we all play our part in stopping climate change.

Here Are Some Other Ideas with Links to Read More:

We All Have the Power to Stop Climate Change

We still have time to take action and help stop climate change.

The next goal in the climate crisis is to halve global emissions by 2030.

By changing how we live, where we keep our money, how we spend our money, we can all play our part in stopping climate change.

The most important event in the history of climate change is happening in November 2021, the UN Climate Change Conference Glasgow. What I, you, everyone of us do has an impact on climate change and the decisions that governments make. We don’t need to wait for governments to tell us what to do. We can all make changes to the way we live and how we spend our money, showing that we prioritise people and planet, and those changes will encourage or force businesses and governments to change too.

Stay tuned for part 6 where we look at How Can We Stop Climate Change.

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Here Is What You Can Do

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Sources Used to Create This

  1. Final UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics
  2. How to Switch to an Ethical Bank Account
  3. How to Transfer to an Ethical Pension
  4. Products with Palm Oil
  5. How to Buy Organic Food and Drink
  6. Grow Sustainably and Help Climate Change
  7. #VoteWithOurMoney and Help Stop Climate Change
  8. About Regenerative Agriculture and How It Helps Climate Change
  9. Soil Carbon Restoration: Can Biology Do the Job?
  10. Excerpt from “Hope in a Changing Climate”
  11. About Biodynamics and How It Helps Climate Change
  12. Why 350?

Production Notes

This was produced by me, James Walters, as a personal project to help stop climate change by inspiring others to grow, eat, and live sustainably.

Any advice given is the opinion of those involved and does not constitute medical, financial, or legal advice.

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