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QuestionWhat can I do, and tell others to do, to stop global warming? Nancy ClemonsAnswer
Anuradha Mittal: Well, we can through our actions show others what to do about climate change. It is of course about reflection about our own lifestyle and making changes the way we live on this planet. But in addition to individual action that we take, which can range from questioning and changing our consumption patterns to questioning, “Do I really need to drive and have one car per person or the latest SUV or Hummer?” The other things that we need to do which is going to be very important and that is political action while composting, changing industrial agriculture, and the kind of food we eat is important. But, it’s also important to target politically on our leaders to change their policies because you and I can change and we need to change that. We have to focus on the local economy, that our food comes not from some faraway distant place which travels how many miles, thousands of miles to come on our table, but it is really also about questioning this insane trade system which allows for this food to travel.
So, on one hand while we focus on building connections with say our farming community that we eat what is locally produced, but we also have to start putting pressure on the political leaders, those policy makers that they change the policies which are contributing to climate change and turn it into a climate justice issue, that we can no longer have governments which will go and fight wars for the sake of oil, that we as communities can say we do not want to depend on oil, that we want a different kind of agriculture where we do not have to again need gas and contribute to this climate change. So, both individual actions in our own life from composting to whatever are very significant, and then political action is very important.
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