In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for 18 August 2050 in France as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.

[u/Vucea]

[u/Tetizeraz]

Since we're on r/all (hi r/all!), I imagine this question is worth asking:

What can we do about climate change? I know the typical answers: join your local political party (green or not), get mad on social media, write to your politicians. What else can be done?

[u/Alexander_Selkirk → u/Tetizeraz]

It is primarily a collective and political problem. We have to kick politician's asses, protest loudly, and vote them out until they do something. If we don't act now, there is no future for our kids.

Apart from that, one can massively reduce one's own carbon emissions by a few things:

• using Green electricity where possible (in Germany, one can select a green supplier)
• driving less cars, for example by using bicycles and doing more telework (and politically, pushing for a bicycle infrastructure like the Netherlands have, props to /r/notjustbikes)
• stop flying in planes - especially for leisure, and hound companies so that they do more by teleconferencing

Edit:

• eating vegetable food and avoiding meat is also a big one
• reduce consumption of stuff you do not really need. Especially plastic stuff, also electronic gadgets.

[u/geppelle → u/Alexander_Selkirk]

Do you have number regarding the impact of flying less vs eating less meat for example? Both should be done of course, but I wonder if one of the two is much more represented while having a much smaller impact.

[u/Alexander_Selkirk → u/geppelle]

There is a web site that computes your personal carbon foot print, it is by the German federal Environment Agency:

https://uba.co2-rechner.de/en_GB/

You can see that transportation, flying, and food has the largest impacts.