
Your Climate Questions Answered
The Climate Question
Taking Action and Making a Difference
The hosts discuss ways individuals can make a difference in climate change, emphasizing the importance of passion, online carbon footprint trackers, and setting an example for others.
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Speaker 3
we are nearly out of time but just one last question for both of
Speaker 9
you hello my name is michola from london in the uk my question is if everyone could do one thing to help that would have the most impact what would it be?
Speaker 3
Justin you
Speaker 1
first. I think we look at this another way right it's like what do you want to do like what do you want to do i mean i'm not saying i wouldn't advocate that everybody has a plant based diet for example eat less meat but think what you're good at and what do you want to do and then apply yourself to it because if you want to affect change choose what you want to change and then just get to work on it and it could be something local you know you could be working on a project restore your part that is doing your bit you could be wanting to campaign or something that could be doing it but you could want to advise or all sorts of things look around and look at the levers that you can pull what you're good at what you're interested in and then just go and do it
Speaker 2
yeah because that's the most sustainable thing ultimately you know thinking about your agency what change can you affect but if you're a bit stuck you can go online there are lots of sort of personal carbon footprint trackers that you can look at your carbon footprint roughly and see which areas that you can improve and that might be a useful starting point for someone who you
Speaker 1
know that's no idea what they want what they want to do yeah what just sorry one last thought don't seek perfection we're none of us going to be perfect begin to do something it's better than doing nothing so don't do nothing because you know you want to fly on holiday you can fly on holiday and do something and then maybe in the future you'll think maybe i don't want to fly on holiday but just start doing something now i think is a really good injunction i think we all worry that we're going to be criticized for not being perfect and don't want to kind of put our heads above the parapet and start acting start
Speaker 8
acting at strong strong strong finish all i
Speaker 2
was going to say was and don't underestimate how important those those steps are because other people see them and they start to do the same we talked about the ripple effect it's
Speaker 3
really
Graihagh Jackson and BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt team up with the BBC's Global News Podcast to answer listeners' questions. They cover everything from the big COP summit in Dubai to tree-planting, nuclear fusion and what action to take personally on Climate Change.
Presenter: Nick Miles Guests: Climate Question Host Graihagh Jackson and BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt Producers: Osman Iqbal, Stephen Jensen, Phoebe Hopson Series Producer: Simon Watts Editors: China Collins and Karen Martin