If you could help reduce global warming, what would you do?

Question: If you could help reduce global warming, what would you do?
- Keywords:
  global warming,
  reduce
Asked by Awesome Greg to Anna, James, Joe, Leonie, Olivia on 16 Mar 2015.
- James Pope answered on 16 Mar 2015:
  
  Hi Awesome Greg,
  
  The simple answer is we need to reduce the amounts of Greenhouse Gases we emit as a planet. Ideally, we would look to be a fossil fuel neutral society by 2050 to give us the best chance of avoiding this.
  
  To get us started things I would do are improve cycle paths and get more people on bikes for short journeys (helps our health and fitness to, reducing stress on the NHS!) and improve energy efficiency of electrical items. I would also ban Stand By buttons, which see electrical devices draw up to 75% of their full power to power a small red or blue light when they could be turned off.
- Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes answered on 16 Mar 2015:
  
  Personally, I love to cycle, so use my bicycle for most of my trips is my number one contribution. If I would buy a car, I would consider an electric one. And if I would own a house, I would try to get solar panels on the roof. My biggest guilty pleasure at the moment is flying. My family lives in the Netherlands and the cheapest and fastest way to go is by airplane, but that’s of course very environment unfriendly.
- Olivia Lynes answered on 16 Mar 2015:
  
  Great question. First you’ve got to give me unlimited money and then I’d do the following things:
  
  Put solar cells on all available roofs in all countries where it was worth it. This is actually quite a long list of countries even the UK! We’ve actually got a train station which has an entirely solar roof and reduced their dependency on electricity as a result. I’m a big fan of solar and I don’t think it’s given enough of a chance.
  
  I’d make recycling mandatory both at home and in businesses to reduce our landfill.
  
  I’d help replant the rainforests, there is a lot of destruction of very large areas of trees- areas which used to act as a carbon dioxide sink and absorb lots of the carbon dioxide that we create by being humans.
- Anna Ashton answered on 16 Mar 2015:
  
  Good question!
  
  If I had the power to do it I would decrease the amount of cars around that create all the nasty greenhouse gases, and replace them with cleaner, electric cars. At the same time we would need to have more sources of clean energy, like wind turbines and solar panels, to power our electric cars. It’s pretty windy up here in Scotland we should harness that power!
- Joe Spencer answered on 17 Mar 2015:
  
  I would work to crack nuclear fusion. A clean source of energy that basically is powered by sea water. In fact with a quick calculation you can show that a bathfull of water would provide one person with enough energy to last the rest of their life.
  There’s so much power in fusion, and so much potential, there’s just difficulties with getting it to work well.
  If i succeeded in fusion, then I feel people will stop burning fossil fuels which increases green house gases.

Question: If you could help reduce global warming, what would you do?

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