December Meme, Day Two

watervole asked for my thoughts on global warming and what we can do as individuals to help.

There are a lot of days when I try very hard not to think about global warming at all, because it terrifies me. I keep wondering what will happen during my children's lives, and their children's lives. I want—I assume most parents want—my children to have the kind of life I had, only better, and the way we are treating our planet makes me feel horribly sure that that isn't going to be possible. The evidence is *in*, and the world still isn't taking it seriously.

I feel so small in the face of it. And I know that I don't do much to help. I mean, I've signed petitions, written to my MP (who is a weasel in a minor government position, so no help there), and I'm pretty sure I've given money to the cause, but it all feels very small.

How to help as an individual… again, it all feels very small. That said, the small things are things that everybody could do, and if everybody did them, it would help. No, not everybody. There are people in the world who can't make the little sacrifices—and I don't want to suggest that people for whom it isn't practical, even possible, to do the little things, are at fault. But there are a lot of smallish things that we can do, and when I read of privileged people refusing to do them, I want to smite someone.
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