Blog Action Day for Climate Change

Today is Blog Action Day.

You know what I'm going to say, right?

The single most important thing you can do each and every day, as an individual, to help the environment, our planet, your own health and, of course, the animals is: Go Vegan!

Why? Well, you can find a lot of links explaining on Vegan Soapbox's Blog Action Day Post.

The bottom line is that going vegan will reduce your own person carbon footprint and contribution to climate change more than driving a hybrid or a myriad of other perfectly nice, but let's be clear, less effective, personal actions.

Now, I also happen to drive a hybrid. And I recycle. And I actually am very good at not over-consuming. I don't shop for clothes hardly ever. I buy my music and books electronically now. I try to shop for local and organic foods (easy for me, living in California.) I work via BlogHer to make our conferences greener. 

So, being vegan isn't all I do to be green. But it is the most important thing I do.

And it is the thing I do over which I have the ultimate total and final control.

And if you consider yourself an environmentalist and you aren't doing it, you need to be thinking about why. because the answer is, I bet, going to be about personal pleasure and what you think your preferences are (having often never tried.)

And that, my friends, is the same rationale for driving a Hummer.

Happy Blog Action Day. did you participate? If so, leave a link in the comments, so i can read your thoughts!

Comments

[Aizen]

Thanks for participating in BAD. You have a great blog and this was an insightful post.
For anyone who doubts climate change please read my blog action day post
Responses to questions and objections on climate change. It's a good place to send your skeptical friends and colleagues — at least as a starting point for whetting their intellectual appetite to learn more (or, as a quick answer to blog comments).

[screwpull]

You are right, but before we can help the environment, we should be much aware of our own health. Being healthy is the first action we must take, in that way we can help the environment with our waste recycling and proper dumping. If man, aside from nature, is the cause of environment destruction, only a man can bring it to it's normal and healthy environment. Let's not waste the chance that we can still make a difference.

[Lydia Chambers]

Thank you for bringing up diet as a key component of living greener. It's a big part of our carbon footprint. I'm not vegan yet, but I began to understand why we should all consider becoming vegans by reading books by Bittman and Pollan. In addition to the food we eat, the packaging it comes in is also a problem. Take bottled water, for example. We'd all be better off drinking tap water and using reusable stainless steel water bottles when we're on the go.