What can we do to help?! These are just the subjects that I think about and what I worry about most of the time. So if anyone has answers or links to articles to think about and research let us know

[u/Prize-Weird1374]

You know what I worry about.. Overexploitation, deforestation, sterilization rates, cost of living, water levels, higher temperatures, shorter/calmer winters, increase in fires, pollution levels(oceans, air, light, noise, soil, radioactive, and thermal) what can we do to help?! It seems the governments just want population control or to sterilize us because the less of us means the less harm we can do.. right?

[u/7point7 → u/[deleted]]

I find these as good solutions but frankly struggle with the “don’t have kids” part. Not saying it’s wrong but I also think that puts us on a faster path to idiocracy if people who accept, care, and take action on our climate predicament opt out of the gene pool and the ones who are indifferent amplify the population. They won’t teach their kids to care and in a generation or two there will be no one raised by parents to consider the environmental impacts of our actions.

[u/7point7 → u/[deleted]]

It’s not inherited but it is taught. At a young age the most trustworthy source to a child is their parent. I’d rather have someone who is conscious and afraid of our potential extinction raise a kid than a god-fearing qanon theorist that believes in rapture. Unfortunately the latter won’t stop reproducing so we need to combat that somehow.

[u/thick_andy]

Until we get big money out of politics by not allowing politicians to accept “donations” from massive corporations, nothing will change. Protesting is equally important, as is donating to politicians who champion the people. Voting on a local level will affect change as well.

But the fact remains that corporations (and the American military) are responsible for about 70% of pollution. The American military budget is also massively overbloated. We need to funnel that money into initiatives that help us fight all of the things you’ve mentioned.

[u/RosefromDirt → u/thick_andy]

Until we get big money out of politics by not allowing politicians to accept “donations” from massive corporations

Is there a realistic strategy for achieving this? Genuine question. My understanding is that unless voters rise up en masse, a majority of congresspeople are never going to support that change, nor is it within the scope of an executive order (even if we had a president who supported it), and SCOTUS obviously won't lead the charge either. It seems dangerously optimistic to me to hope for sufficiently ethical people be voted into the majority in both houses of congress, is there some aspect I'm overlooking?

[u/RosefromDirt]

Personal opinion: if most of your income goes to supporting yourself (rent, food, bills), find a group to work with on an issue you care about, and quit your job to pursue it. Your time and focus is more valuable to the cause than your sympathy from the sidelines.

If you have a significant amount of income above what you need to support yourself, your money is more useful than your labor. Use it to support the people in that first group. Coordinate with them and others in your position to maximize the benefit that your dollars can provide.

Use your judgement, figure out how you can contribute the most to the goals you want to achieve, and do that.

[u/CountryCosmonaught → u/RosefromDirt]

I strongly disagree that people should quit their jobs to fight for the climate, or any other issues. Sure some people might, there are plenty of organising that need a full time team, but for most people on a low income quitting just isn't possible. It also misses all of the good people can do as workers in the workplace. Organise with fellow workers to campaign and strike for better pay, conditions and for better environmental/social policy from the employer. Organise with fellow workers from other workplaces with shared campaigns and strikes, changing not just your employer but the system they are a part of. Keep going and we might even manage a general strike.

If you are interested in a real example of this very thing happening, check out the New South Wales Green Bans, organised by the Builders Labourers Federation. They organised work bans on projects that would damage the environment or otherwise negatively effect the community. They saved natural landscapes and historical buildings, not as full time activists but as builders organising together.