Welcome back to this Question Of The Week! As I'm sure everyone is aware, climate change is one of the key issues that affects our entire planet and has the potential to impact our lives in many ways. Rising sea levels threaten to displace millions of people, and increasing dry hot weather are causing forest fires to become ever more dangerous and destructive. Tornadoes and hurricanes are also getting worse and in the past decade we have seen entire cities almost wiped out in the USA, and when these atrocities hit there is nothing that can be done to prevent them, it is too late! There are SO many different aspects to climate change that it is hard to know which ones we should be focussing on or considering the greatest threat. Likewise, there are so many different causes of climate change that even our scientists have a hard time agreeing on which actions humanity perform that cause the most harm to our environment and climate. Some people think it is the use of fossil fuels, others say it is the eating of meat, and many people focus on transport such as flights. Then of course there are some who believe that climate change is not even man made and would continue regardless of our actions!

This week we ask you what you think are the biggest causes of our changing climate, and more importantly what you think we could do differently to help to reduce and even reverse this trend of rising global temperatures and worsening weather. Your answer does not have to fit the published statistics of what is generally considered to be the worse causes since no one can really agree what they are. Instead I invite you to share the things that you think humanity does that cause the most damage from what you see and know from your own experience and knowledge.

Please feel free to focus on anything that you consider to be an issue.. The reasons you choose do NOT have to be the biggest causes of climate change, but instead things that you think are important and perhaps even not often talked about. There are so many things we can change in this world, and most of it starts with our actions and choices. Decentralisation is one such example, whereby buying and sourcing things locally instead of from huge centralised companies could well lead to a huge decrease in transport and often destructive methods of sourcing raw materials. The bigger the company, the more damage they do as they try to obtain vast quantities of things to make the products we buy.

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Q. "What things could we do differently to reduce climate change?"

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