Put that money in stocks or ETFs that align with your climate goals. You don’t even have to dig too deep to find ones that meet your needs. Much digital ink has been spilled on the topic. Just find one or two you like and go for it.
In a general sense, put the money where you want change to happen in this version of reality.
Send it to me, I’ll grow some trees and hemp and shit.
Your time and energy is far more valuable than your money.
I would recommend using that money as an emergency fund, and getting involved with an activist organization working to stop climate change. There are a wide range of them, with tactics ranging from legislative pressure to property destruction and civil disobedience. Believe it or not, there are lots of small local problems that a small group can meaningfully impact, and will add up.
While there are systemic problems that cannot be solved by an individual, they can be solved by collective organization. You have to be part of that collective if you want to stop climate change.
Use it to fund Luigi
Start a fund raiser, do advertisement, (make some donations your self so that it does not look dead) - ones you get a lot of money (lets say you have doubled) - start again and repeat until you double - within 10 cycles of doublings, you reach 10 million, and keep doing until you get rich enough (lets say 10 more cycles to reach 10B) then you have 2 paths to choose - either be a hero and actual invest in research and actively reversing shit done, maybe helping displaced or other good deeds, or the mlm path, and continue the doubling cycle, keep earning - with this much money, you can now have actors and fake donations, maybe even fake researches into how you are helping, and keep growing your wealth, and maybe then escape to a tax heaven.
Apologies for the dystopian ending, but realistically a person even going full carbon negative is not even a dent. If you actually want to do good, then you realistically require trillions, and then you feed that money to politicians, and reverse launder your way towards actual green solutions.
Its a drop in the ocean and I’m going to come off negative here but your up against jets, deliveries on demand from across the globe, mass meat industry and oil companies that will lobby against their destruction and in tern for mass extinction. If you really want to fight climate change move somewhere that won’t see the effects, install solar learn to live off the land. An alternative if not too late become a revolutionary topple capitalism the system that allowed us to get to this point and beyond.
Dude, leave the meat alone. Humans have been eating meat for tens of thousands of years and there was never a problem. It’s the life style we have which created the demand for cars, deliveries, heavy machinery spinning. Those are bigger enemies. Meat is like you said, a drop in the ocean.
What a stupid argument, why don’t you go full power and use the same for oil?
Well, have people been driving cars from Jurassic era?
No but were they factory farming, loosing over half theyre stock to wastage. Might as well say reject modernity let’s use lead fucking pipe for our water.
lol
If one wants to individually help reduce their carbon footprint, the biggest things one could do is to…
- Not have children
- Not eat meat (or animal by-products)
- Not take international flights
Some people want kids, and some people want to travel. Some people want to eat meat, and that’s ok too. But I’m pretty sure those are the top 3 things an individual can do to reduce their personal carbon footprint.
“live off the land”? You are about 5 billion people too late for that.
topple capitalism
Would you like to work for me for free then?
i have friends that live off grid grow food and share produce with neighbors.
no i wouldn’t want to work for anyone for any price, rather i would work for my community.
Children of Kali
You could buy a couple of acres of land and turn it into a forest preserve. And then don’t let anyone buy it to build or cut down trees / etc.
Depending on how much you care, you could even plant a sustainable forest and grow hardwood as an investment.
You need to be careful with this. Depending on your location, there might be laws imposing that you use the land, otherwise you might lose it. I don’t know the exact conditions, and I suppose they vary.
Also, 10000 USD doesn’t buy you a lot of land, depending on location.
solar panels or something? No one is stopping climate change with $10K, I don’t even think $10B would make a substantial dent.
10B could make a couple underground metro lines in an otherwise extremely car dependent city with no public transport
Ya its a decent start. My point here is the scale of what we’re facing. Its going to take trillions of dollars, synchronous action taken by many nations simultaneously and a complete restructuring of the current world order. There’s always hope but at this point i’m fairly cynical and don’t have a lot of faith that the right people are in charge to even start the conversation.
I think they’re just asking, from a categorical imperative perspective, what is the most effective way for all individuals with a bit of savings to help the climate situation.
And tbh, at this point OP is probably better off spending that $10k on preparing for:
- inclimate weather (HVAC, water proofing, warm clothing)
- inconsistent power (battery backups, a generator)
- food/clean water shortages (home gardening skills, rain catching/water purification).
At this point, there’s virtually nothing that can be done to stop the impact of climate change, there is only adapting to survive it. The best we can do is vote and/or hope for our global political situation to finally reach its inevitable crisis point. But I don’t expect that to be a pleasant experience.
You cannot have any significant impact with 10,000$ use it to enjoy your life. We are all doomed anyway.
This is bs, please dont spread misinformation like this. With your logic, we should all stop voting because a single vote doesnt have impact.
Every person is responsible for their own decisions and 10k from a single person have a huge relative impact. If every person with 10k available would use those for fighting climate change, we would have overcome it already.
This sounds nice, but what is your actual proposal for how to spend $10,000?
I actually made a separate comment with my suggestions^^. I think political change and research would have the most impact, so my proposal would be donating to organizations like FCA or CATF (which btw I already do with monthly payments to a climate fund because Ive been asking myself a similar question in the past)
OK I agree that everyone needs to do their part to help environment, but let’s say if OP has extra 10k to throw around then it means one of two things they are already rich and climate conscious so they would already have solar panels and what not.
Or they got those 10k from lottery/inheritance or something in which case he can switch to more energy efficient appliances and stuff but still most of the appliances brought in this century are already somewhat environment friendly like yes there are CFCs in some refrigerators but it is just few grams and it is enclosed it will only damage environment when disposed improperly. There is a cool statistic I read a while back, if a single human being becomes completely carbon neutral since birth in 70years of his life span however much CO2 he stopped from entering environment is equivalent to CO2 emitted by energy industry in 1second so yes, unless OP is a CEO of Exxon or BP or some other evil corp they can’t have any significant impact.
I saw that few ppl suggested to donate that money towards organizations pushing for climate reforms and I’ll be honest I didn’t think about that, but then again, We already broke 1.5°C record last year and we briefly touched 1.9°C so yes we are all doomed and OP will be better off enjoying those 10k by doing what they like.
And what you ars saying like
Every person is responsible for their own decisions and 10k from a single person have a huge relative impact
You need to understand that their are a lot many people for whom 10k USD could be a life changing amount of money, and the only thing they can do is feel bad that they can’t do their part. My own salary is barely above 10k USD and many of my peers are making less than half of that.
Those are all valid points but I dont think thats what OPs question was about. They asked about effective ways to fight climate change. Not doing anything can never be an answer to that. Whether or not it makes sense to spend your hard earned money on other peoples behalf is a different question.
Also, no we are not doomed. Yes, climate change will have a huge impact on humankind, but earth wont randomly explode or something. Humankind will adjust to higher temperatures and more frequent natural disasters, but the extent to which this will affect everyone can still be minimized. The poor will be fucked the hardest, ‘accepting our fate’ and not doing anything will cost millions more lives than it could.
Depends on where you live and your situation. You either limit your personal CO2 or the society’s CO2 or even both. Most of my suggestions will make or save you money over time.
For personal you could do these, most of these will pay themselves back within 10 years in savings.
- Swap gas stove for induction stove
- Swap a gas boiler to heat pump + electric boiler
- Buy solar panels for the roof and/or battery
- Heat pump for domestic heating for colder regions.
- Home insulation such as triple glass windows
- For hot regions getting an awning for the windows facing the sun goes a long way.
- Selling car to buy EV (CO2 neutral at 1 year, less CO2 after that)
- Buying an E-bike if you have short trips and would like to bike more (CO2 negative almost instantly if you prevent car trips)
Otherwise if you don’t feel like any of those investing in solar companies or battery production companies will make it easier for them to finance expansions to their operations and maybe even make you some money along the way.
If you live in the UK or applicable countries getting in on Octopus energy co-op energy production is a good way to invest the money and reduce CO2 at the same time.
Don’t forget that an easy way to limit your carbon footprint is free. Notably plastics, aluminum, steel, other metals, concrete and beef.
To limit society’s footprint you can show up to city Council meetings and advocate for bike paths and public transport which really goes a long way. Showing up with a couple of buddies, making them talk and buying beer for them after in one of the most cost effective ways to stop climate change. Often city council members just need some people to back them up when proposing the CO2 negative urban planning improvements.
Stopping climate change is all about taking small steps towards the solution, asking this question on lemmy is a great start.
Enjoy the money and tell yourself its not your fault.
Or alternatively, become an eco-terrorist.
Think of:
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Pipelines - buy explosives
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Certain individuals pertaining to the oil industry - buy a firearms
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Certain politicians - buy firearms
I am not a lawyer, this comment is for entertainment pur-
Hmm, why is there loud knocking on my door?
Why are you making your fed work on the lord’s day?
NO KINGS!
NO GODS!
Ted Kaczynski is still alive it seems.
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Put it in a bank that doesn’t invest your money into the wrong stuff. In fact a bank can loan more money than it has, but there’s a ratio set by law. So for example that could effectively be 30k in arbitrary investments.
If you want to spend it, I’d buy a good bicycle or get my home isolated or sum like that. You could get cooking lessons and proper cookware and stay away from processed foods that generate tons of waste. If you have the space you could grow your own vegetables and have chickens, which eat bio waste. Basically reduce what you buy. You could get tools and learn how to fix things if that’s more up your alley. For example I’ve fixed my Sennheiser headphones several times, but it did need some investment in tools. You could also donate it to a repair café.
Climate change is tied to capitalism. Use it to run for office.
Comrade! I like the way you think.
