TL;DR Consult the Protect Our Winters Voter Guidebook to learn quickly and efficiently about your local and national candidates and their stance on all environmental issues.
This is easier than changing your paper towel strategy or even choosing a bike ride over a car ride. All you have to do is quickly research your candidates to understand where they will put their energy when in office. The best tool I’ve seen for this with regard to the environmental issues that effect climate change is the Protect Our Winters Voter Guidebook.
In it you can enter your address and it will show you all the candidates on your ballot and where they sit on these key topics. This is the most crucial way to create a change for good because our representatives have far more reach than we do. they’re actions while in office will be able to push our economy toward the energy transition and create a viable path toward carbon neutrality.’
If you ever felt helpless during the wildfires, or amazed by the air clarity we experienced during the early days of the lockdown, voting to incite change and progress toward lowering our global emissions is the perfect outlet. The industrial scale of carbon emissions is the single biggest reason why we faced these monumental changes this year and it can be addressed on a state and global scale with the right advocates in office.
Climate change became a political and partisan issue but it really shouldn’t be one.
It’s really that simple, I don’t think there’s much more I can say on this. Go vote.
Keep the Blue Mountains green by casting your vote, NSW Australia