One thing to help the enviroment

[FishInferno]

Humans are causing global warming, harming the Earth, the only habitable place we know of. we dump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, from cars, power plants, factories, planes, and pretty much anything we use in our day-to-day lives. So my question is simple: What is one thing that you could do that would help the environment in some way? (like carpooling once a week, recycling, or, yes, even reducing the amount of time you play KSP)

I am not necessarily asking you to actually DO what you say(but it would be nice), but just think about how you could help the beloved Earth. Imagine if everyone in New York carpooled or took the bus/subway once a week, instead of driving their own cars or using a taxi. That, along with helping traffic, would nearly chop car emissions in half. Ill go first:

Plant a tree.

[Nuke]

destroy all humans.

sorry thats the best i can come up with. im on hydro power and i dont drive. the only time we use fossil fuel is when the power company shakes down the town's backup generator 10 days every year, and when i grill my steak (which i eat rare).

Edited May 20, 2014 by Nuke

[lajoswinkler]

I'm quite obsessive about turning off electric appliances. All lights in my house which burn for a long time are CFL. Short time burning lights are incadescent. I walk whenever I can and planting trees is something I'm doing at the moment. I recycle aluminium and glass. That's about it.

[joppiesaus]

Buy solar panels / a little turbine on your roof! It's a huge investment, but you'll get that back and the Earth becomes happy!

I recycle stuff like plastic. I conserve electrical energy. And I bought the most efficient PSU I could get!

But the climate change really scares me. It looks something to me like the story of Patterson, there's a nice Cosmos episode of it.

[lajoswinkler]

Buy solar panels / a little turbine on your roof! It's a huge investment, but you'll get that back and the Earth becomes happy!

I recycle stuff like plastic. I conserve electrical energy. And I bought the most efficient PSU I could get!

But the climate change really scares me. It looks something to me like the story of Patterson, there's a nice Cosmos episode of it.

That's the worst thing you can do. The financial investment will return in 10 years or so for the panels, but the turbine.... LOL. Things don't work like they do in Sim City.

From the energy standpoint, a small wind turbine is carbon positive (more net CO2), and a small solar panel instalation is weakly positive or barely carbon neutral.

Don't buy that crap. Just save energy and water, and recycle stuff that's worth recycling (paper isn't, metals are).

[MedwedianPresident]

Probably replacing factory meat with meat from happy animals that come from farms where they are treated appropriately. This would not only improve the quality and healthiness of the flesh that is eaten but also would help rebalance the planet's ecosystem because then livestock will be treated like animals again and can interact with the environment like real animals do.

It might take up space, but the solution is not cutting on meat or becoming vegetarian, but rather:

FARM PLANETS!

That is, when we arise to the stars in the future, one or two planets which have plains and a breathable atmosphere could be used entirely for farming livestock. If edible plants are located on the planet and other conditions for a healthy animal are met, meat production can continue in the future without any need for factory farming.

An argument against the freeing of animals is that it basically would damage the earth in an even worser way: we Humans have bred animals to eat them, and now new types of animals have developed from their wild counterparts. If meat was suddenly outlawed from the whole world, one big problem would arise: Where with that leftover meat, part of which is already with supermarkets, and where with all the waste livestock then? If we "liberate" the cows, then they would start dining at farms otherwise reserved for the growing of vegetables. That is, no meat also means no vegetables - both foods are dependent on each other.

That is; you shouldn't become vegetarian, you just should eat meat from appropriate sources where animals are treated like animals and not like items.

[lajoswinkler]

Probably replacing factory meat with meat from happy animals that come from farms where they are treated appropriately. This would not only improve the quality and healthiness of the flesh that is eaten but also would help rebalance the planet's ecosystem because then livestock will be treated like animals again and can interact with the environment like real animals do.

It might take up space, but the solution is not cutting on meat or becoming vegetarian, but rather:

FARM PLANETS!

That is, when we arise to the stars in the future, one or two planets which have plains and a breathable atmosphere could be used entirely for farming livestock. If edible plants are located on the planet and other conditions for a healthy animal are met, meat production can continue in the future without any need for factory farming.

An argument against the freeing of animals is that it basically would damage the earth in an even worser way: we Humans have bred animals to eat them, and now new types of animals have developed from their wild counterparts. If meat was suddenly outlawed from the whole world, one big problem would arise: Where with that leftover meat, part of which is already with supermarkets, and where with all the waste livestock then? If we "liberate" the cows, then they would start dining at farms otherwise reserved for the growing of vegetables. That is, no meat also means no vegetables - both foods are dependent on each other.

That is; you shouldn't become vegetarian, you just should eat meat from appropriate sources where animals are treated like animals and not like items.

Farming has nothing to do with raw nature. Farm animals are artificial in their purpose. Once released, they will die.

The only effect cows have on the environment is by releasing waste products and consuming grass. They fart copious amount of methane and eat a lot of grass. If you want to reduce their enviromental footprint, the solution is to reduce their number.

Cows living happily on a meadow and cows stucked in a row, it doesn't make a difference. They eat, they poop, fart, exhale and pee. Less cows, less waste, smaller footprint.

Eating less cows benefits the environment.

[TheDarkStar]

Trigger global thermonuclear war. The resulting ecological disaster would be short in geological time, and there would be no people left to further damage the environment!

It's not what I actually would do, but that's not the question.