{"id":5500,"date":"2019-09-20T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"how-to-save-the-world-is-individual-action-pointless-in-the-face-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/20\/how-to-save-the-world-is-individual-action-pointless-in-the-face-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Save The World: Is Individual Action Pointless In The Face Of Climate Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By BBC News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let&#8217;s not beat around the bush: the simple answer has to be yes;\nindividual action is pointless.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think about it: what\ndifference does one person forgoing a lamb chop for a lentil bake, deciding to\ncatch the bus rather than take their car, or deciding not to jet off for that\nautumn getaway away in the Balearics make if the other 7,699,999,999 of us\nhumans here on Earth don&#8217;t do anything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a dispiriting conclusion\nand begs an obvious question, and one that I am sure has already occurred to\nyou: why bother?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s exactly what I asked the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg when I met her last month. Rather than fly to her climate change meetings in New York, Miss Thunberg had opted to be whisked across the Atlantic on a racing yacht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You remember the boat, the\none with the bright blue plastic poo bucket? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-49756280\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC News Let&#8217;s not beat around the bush: the simple answer has to be yes; individual action is pointless. Think about it: what difference does one person forgoing a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}