United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that countries must phase out the burning of coal, oil, and gas. He added that the current policies would lead to...
Electing new politicians who say they will push for implementation of more sustainable energy and for companies to bear the burden of the full lifecycle of the products they produce (the world’s ICE vehicles won’t just disappear unless someone is made to properly recycle them) is a long term strategy typically only available as an option every 3 or 4 years.
Another strategy is to hound your current politicians to push for these things. Find your representative(s) and start bombarding them with letters outlining how you want them to vote and why. Why wait for the election cycle to come round when the current representatives are already in and deciding things.
Maybe we could start a Lemmy community/KBin magazine etc and start finding like minded individuals who are keen to do the same. We could use it to host a repository of well written letter templates that outline specific issues while not making the people sound like nutbags and a set of guides for different jurisdictions and tiers of government in different countries.
Electing new politicians who say they will push for implementation of more sustainable energy and for companies to bear the burden of the full lifecycle of the products they produce (the world’s ICE vehicles won’t just disappear unless someone is made to properly recycle them) is a long term strategy typically only available as an option every 3 or 4 years.
Another strategy is to hound your current politicians to push for these things. Find your representative(s) and start bombarding them with letters outlining how you want them to vote and why. Why wait for the election cycle to come round when the current representatives are already in and deciding things.
Maybe we could start a Lemmy community/KBin magazine etc and start finding like minded individuals who are keen to do the same. We could use it to host a repository of well written letter templates that outline specific issues while not making the people sound like nutbags and a set of guides for different jurisdictions and tiers of government in different countries.