An Audacious Toolkit: Actions Against Climate Breakdown (Part 3: I is for Individual)

Individual or collective action?

“Being the change” as part of a bigger revolution

Millicent Garrett Fawcett detail, Parliament Square, London. Photograph by Robin Sones.

1. Individual action is crucial for credible communication

2. Individual action leads to a new normal

3. Individual action leads to collective action

4. Individual action enables learning by doing

Which individual changes?

1. Not flying or flying less

2. Stop driving (or smaller or less or electric)

Father with children in cargo bike in Copenhagen. Source Wikepedia.

3. Eat a plant-based diet

4. Low consumption home life

5. Add your own?

Two references

Figure 3 from Ivanova et al 2015, showing resource footprints for EU household consumption.
Individual options to reduce climate impact from Wynes & Nicholas 2017.

The Audacious Toolkit Climate Action Trilogy!

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Immigrant, Swiss-American-UK ecological economist at the University of Lausanne. Research focus on living well within planetary limits. Opinions my own.

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Julia Steinberger

Immigrant, Swiss-American-UK ecological economist at the University of Lausanne. Research focus on living well within planetary limits. Opinions my own.