What are the Most Effective Individual Actions for the Climate?

Nick and Adam discuss the movie Don’t Look Up (Netflix) and compare individual actions for the climate commonly promoted in the environmental movement with scientific research on the most effective actions. We do this by discussing the actions promoted on the website https://www.count-us-in.org/en-gb/project/ and the following scientific article: Wynes, S. and Nicholas, K. A. 2017. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environ. Res. Lett., 12(7), 1-9: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541  Additional Links: This show is a continuation of our Summer Special from last week, titled: Don’t Look Up, the Climate Crisis and Self-Care (Summer Special): https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202201161300/don%E2%80%99t-look-climate-crisis-and-self-care-summer-special Adam recommends the website https://drawdown.org/ over count-us-in.org for websites measuring the impact of different individual actions of the climate. Nick recommends the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: https://booko.com.au/works/7812484 ‘Don’t Look Up Doesn’t Get the Climate Crisis’ By Eric Levitz: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/dont-look-up-climate-metaphor-review.html ‘Brian Cox Breaks Down The Science Behind Don’t Look Up’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntaidEKs_Ks  Music and other clips: Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Clip from Don’t Look Up (Netflix). Union speaker Luke on just transitions for fossil fuel workers, from the Climate Crisis National Day of Action event in Melbourne, Feb 22, 2020:  https://archive.org/details/climaterally The Voracious March of Godliness by Bad Religion: https://badreligion.com/albums/no-substance Work-Rest-Play-Die (live) by Subhumans: https://subhumans.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-dive  Buying a Freedom of Species shirt is a great way to spread the word about our show and support 3CR! There is only one looser fit shirt available – it is 2XL size in blue: https://3cr-shop.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/freedom-of-species-loose-fitted-tshirt?variant=40295156023460 There are plenty of fitted shirts available in a wide range of sizes in green, blue and red – all FoS shirts are now selling for the reduced price of only $15! https://3cr-shop.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/freedom-of-species-semi-fitted-tshirt