Six Ways That Changing Your Life Can Prevent Global Warming

By Peter Michaelson, BuzzFlash. Posted December 9, 2006.

American society isn't doing much about global warming -- are we waiting for Al Gore? Here are six things we can do to prevent it.

All of the reasons for our failure to address global warming are known. But they are not known widely and deeply enough to send us rushing down the street on bicycles or even in four-cylinder cars.

Still, we want something to be done. Are we waiting for Al Gore? Is it possible it all depends on our own little selves?

A very simple axiom is at play: The better we understand our own contribution to the paralysis, the freer we become to act effectively.