Leaving the responsibility to politicians to take charge of implementing the patterns to be followed to reduce the planet's temperature in the next 20 years is like hiring a wolf as a keeper of lambs. For example, the more US President Joe Biden talks about clean energy, the more contracts he signs to exploit shale oil through fracking, the worst hydrocarbon exploitation technique ever created.
It is evident that the worst threat to the planet is politics in general, however it is possible to combat this in a simple way: by stopping consuming the products that the bosses of those who govern sell. Stopping eating beef is a great way to save the Amazon, not consuming palm oil based products will stop this industry from burning the forests in Indonesia, therefore tons of CO2 will stop rising into the atmosphere. It seems silly, but if half of us inhabitants of the blue planet decide to apply this measure the pockets of the powerful will be affected and we will force them to assume once and for all the need to fix the disaster that they themselves cause.
Perhaps it is utopian of me to think that all of us united we can change the world but I would not like that one day my grandson tells me: "Grandmother, why were you such a coward and did nothing for the planet when you could? To leave the world as it is is to condemn the future to death.
