But some personal actions have a lot bigger impact than others. Doing the right thing is never a mistake.(5) By all means, shrink your own carbon footprint. I’m happiest when I’m fighting something my own size.I’m happiest when I’m fighting something dangerous and powerful.I’m ready to join with other people and work for systemic change in the public sphere.I like to act alone, in my own home, making changes on a personal scale, like composting and turning down the heat.(3) Do you prefer to work alone or with others? I’m happiest when I’m working AGAINST something.I’m happiest when I’m working FOR something.Give me a little encouragement or a little more time. I’m ready to roll! Just point the way.Note the numbers of the final answers you get, we’ll ask you to submit them at the end!
Go there, choose again, and off you go, until you reach Your Personal Climate Calling. Your choice will direct you to another pair of options. Starting with the first pair of options below, decide which best describes you. So we put our heads together to create this climate action quiz, hoping to help people find their role in what we believe is the most important cause many will ever join. Whenever we give a talk urging climate action, people tell us, “I really want to help, but I don’t know how.” Or “I can’t think of anything to do that would make a difference.” It’s disturbing how many people are baffled and stymied. We think lots of folks just don’t know what to do. Yet even more people-67%-say they rarely or never even talk about what is widely characterized as “the climate crisis.” What gives? Another 25% are “concerned.” Fully 65% of us feel a personal sense of responsibility to help beat the rising heat. Record numbers of Americans are “alarmed” about climate change, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, publisher of this site. That’s 33% of us who are “very worried and strongly supportive of climate action”-up from just 16% five years ago. You can quickly follow your personal thread (about five minutes), or take the time to read every word (about 20 minutes). What better way to lead people to their special climate calling than to offer a similar pattern of questions about their characters and preferences-a sort of personality quiz, leading not to guilt but to lots and lots of ideas. The writers, both amateur botanists, remember the simple identification keys they once used to find the names of flowers. It’s just a matter of finding the right match.
But there is limitless work to be done, of infinite variety. Street demonstrations aren’t for everyone climate action is not one-size-fits-all.
#NYTIMES NEWS QUIZ HOW TO#
Two climate writers set out to create a useful, realistic response to all the good folks who ask them how to find their best place in the climate struggle.
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