Support OCC and get 20+ bonus, ad-free videos by signing up for Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/occ/ Be one of the first 200 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/OCC/ In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at what you can do about climate change using individual, personal, and collective actions. This video, however, is not a simple list of the best things a person can do to change their lifestyle and shrink their carbon footprint, instead I start by looking at the way in which we’ve globally become fixated on individual solutions to climate change. We envision ourselves more as consumers than as citizens. As a result carbon footprint related actions like flying less and recycling are prioritized over voting, protesting, and system change. This video is all about doing both personal things to lower your carbon footprint like driving less, but simultaneously acting collectively to create a system in which having a small carbon footprint is feasible for everyone. Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: http://bit.ly/2iz4lIV Email List: https://www.subscribepage.com/ourchangingclimate Twitter: https://twitter.com/OurClimateNow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/occvideos/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/occ.climate/ I use Epidemic Sound for some of my music: http://epidemicsound.com/creator For the rest, I use Artlist.io. You can get 2 months free of Artlist.io with this link: https://artlist.io/Charlie-278823 _______________________ Resources: 1. Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction): https://eird.org/publicaciones/Climate-Change-DRR.pdf 2. Framing Climate Change (Anne K. Armstrong et al.): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv941wjn 3. "I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle." (Mary Annaise Heglar via Vox): https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal 4. Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says (The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change 5. You Can Eat a Burger and Still Fight For the Planet (Earther): https://earther.gizmodo.com/you-can-eat-a-burger-and-still-fight-for-the-planet-1833163300 6. The Carbon Majors Database (CDP): https://tinyurl.com/yyspxcup 7. We can't all be Greta, but your actions have a ripple effect (BBC): https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49756280 8. Climate change: can individual consumer choices make a difference? (Vox): https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/12/17967738/climate-change-consumer-choices-green-renewable-energy 9. Don't focus on how individuals can stop climate change (Fast Company): https://www.fastcompany.com/90290795/focusing-on-how-individuals-can-stop-climate-change-is-very-convenient-for-corporations 10. Climate change: yes, your individual action does make a difference (The Conversation): https://theconversation.com/climate-change-yes-your-individual-action-does-make-a-difference-115169 11. An Audacious Toolkit: Actions Against Climate Breakdown (Part 3: I is for Individual) (University of Leeds): https://tinyurl.com/s6ynbre 12. Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption (Ivanova et al.): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jiec.12371 13. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions (Wynes. & Nicholas): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 14. Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals. (Martin Lukas via The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals 15. Solar isn’t accessible to half of Americans. Can community solar change that? (Grist): https://tinyurl.com/tqwqad6 16. Naomi Klein on Extinction Rebellion, the Green New Deal and fast fashion (Channel 4 News): https://youtu.be/JpFZmisvrQQ 17. Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C approved by governments (IPCC): https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/ 18. CO2 emissions per capita (Our World in Data): https://tinyurl.com/qu2dfyn 19. The relationship between transit-rich neighborhoods and transit ridership: Evidence from the decentralization of poverty (Kyungsoon Wang & Myungje Woo): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622817307166#fig2 20. 'Transit deserts' don't serve workers, study says (Chicago Tribune): https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ct-transit-deserts-met-20140804-column.html 21. Transit Deserts in Cook County. (Transit Future): https://tinyurl.com/qt3mygt #CarbonFootprint #ClimateChange #IndividualSolutions

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