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How to save planet earth

Have you ever held a product in your hands and considered the existential weight of your purchase? Beyond each price tag hides a ripple effect. It expands from soil to water ways, grocery aisle to kitchen plates, factories to fulfillment centers and mail slots to landfills. This global impact has become less hidden in the past decade, and ignoring the people downstream from us has grown increasingly difficult.

We’re more aware than ever of the mark our consumption leaves on planet Earth, which now sustains nearly 8 billion people. Somehow, humans are still pumping more than 30 gig a tons of carbon dioxide(CO2)per year into the atmosphere, despite the mountain of evidence that CO2 is the top contributor to greenhouse gases causing global warming. 【小题1】We know we need to do better, but we feel helpless and overwhelmed. Let’s call this the eco-essential crisis; it applies on a deeply personal level for most environmentally aware humans, and on a global scale.

Climate journalist and author Tatiana Schlossberg says even a simple trip to the supermarket can feel paralyzing in 2021. “I want to buy the local thing, but it’s not organic. Or, maybe it’s in a plastic box,” she says. In her 2019 book Inconspicuous Consumption, she ventures way beyond the store aisle and into the web of less apparent ways that humans are damaging Earth. For example, your internet use is tied to extensive carbon emissions and energy consumption. 【小题2】 The world is more complicated than that.

In fact, being a good citizen on planet Earth with climate concerns, you’ve likely asked or agonized over this question: What should I do? 【小题3】 So, we took this question to five people who have immersed their careers, research and writing in the realities of climate science.

One of their most consistent insights may surprise you: Consumer responsibility misses the mark. “One of the major failings of the environmental movement is having everyone focus on these small things that everyone can do.” says Ayana Elizabeth Johnson-a marine biologist and co-host of the podcast How to Save a Planet. 【小题4】 There are just more meaningful and long-lasting ways to expend your energy in the climate fight. Most of them involve organization and collective action.

“Individuals join together to collectively have far more power changing the system than they can as individuals,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

A．That doesn’t mean it’s none of your business.
B．these experts propose other key steps that every human can take toward a better future.
C．Similar challenge apply to use of plastics and consumption of meat and other goods.
D．Part of the challenge with the environmental movement is the astonishing list of things we need to change.
E．The solution to this problem, however, is not for you to stop using the internet, according to Schlossberg.
F．It’s easy to get lost in the storm of supposed answers around social media, the latest data sets and “ego-friendly” marketing campaigns.
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【小题4】 Encourage teens to recognize that they have limited time and cannot possibly be everywhere and do everything. So, naturally, there will be social events that they cannot attend. But this does not mean that they’re necessarily missing out on something.

Turn off the technology and do something else. Turning off the technology seems like a natural cure for FOMO. But just switching the phone off does not erase the feelings that FOMO causes. 【小题5】 The key is to do something else entirely like reading a book or baking cookies — anything that allows them to focus on something other than social media.

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E．In general, FOMO causes people to assume that they have a low social rank.
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Patience with kids is one of those things we wish for, but still, it feels like it’s an unreachable goal because kids are so good at pushing our buttons. 【小题1】 You can get better at it if you continually exercise it. No weightlifter starts with a 200-pound weight. If you’d like to grow your patience muscles, then I have a plan for you.

When you feel your patience wearing thin, you can walk away or give yourself a time-out. 【小题2】 You should know what you say in anger and what you say in peace are two different things.

【小题3】 This means you’ll have to stop talking, and let them speak without your correction. As you listen, try to understand instead of being concerned about whether your child is listening to you. Try to find out why they’re acting in a certain way. There’s always a reason for your child’s behavior. Listening to your kid can help you know the truth.

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As you exercise your patience muscles, start by being patient with yourself. The more you take small steps in patience building, the stronger your patience will become. 【小题5】

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【小题3】 When someone is trying to manage illness or a house move, just saying “What would help you today?” can be amazingly supportive. Or, suggest what you can do for them: picking up some shopping, taking the dog for a walk. Even if it’s not needed, just knowing you’ ve been thought of can be supportive in itself.

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F．Because being judgmental can only make someone annoyed.
G．Sometimes people are trying to manage life in their own way.

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