Its a drop in the ocean and I'm going to come off negative here but your up against jets, deliveries on demand from across the globe, mass meat industry and oil companies that will lobby against their destruction and in tern for mass extinction. If you really want to fight climate change move somewhere that won't see the effects, install solar learn to live off the land. An alternative if not too late become a revolutionary topple capitalism the system that allowed us to get to this point and beyond.
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If you truly don't need the money, donate it to an org that's doing political advocacy.
10k of solar isn't going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Changing laws and regulations will.
You're implying advocacy can beat financial and industrial interests on critical topics, something that goes against what we have been witnessing for a while.
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Spending and consumning less could help more. Espicially gas and meat.
Your time and energy is far more valuable than your money.
I would recommend using that money as an emergency fund, and getting involved with an activist organization working to stop climate change. There are a wide range of them, with tactics ranging from legislative pressure to property destruction and civil disobedience. Believe it or not, there are lots of small local problems that a small group can meaningfully impact, and will add up.
While there are systemic problems that cannot be solved by an individual, they can be solved by collective organization. You have to be part of that collective if you want to stop climate change.
As a few people have said, buying something like solar panels, or the deposit on an electric car would probably be the best - reducing your impact is probably the most you can do.
The other option could be green investment.... They do exist, ignore 'transitional energy' funds (90% oil majors), look at the individual shares that any fund that looks interesting. I have some money in EdenTree funds. That way your money is hopefully helping do good, while (hopefully) growing so you can do something that will have a bigger personal effect.
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Plant a fuckload of protected species trees
Wont have much impact unfortunately. Climate zones are shifting already, those trees will die before growing up because they would belong further north by then.
But do your research or better find an organization who did the research, can be trusted to know what theyβre doing and makes sure to protect the trees afterwards. Just planting random trees somewhere is not necessarily going to help. It could even make things worse for that area.
Send it to me, Iβll grow some trees and hemp and shit.
Buy second hand, don't buy new unless you know that the company is trying to solve climate change. Example, at Honolulu there's a company that is setting up water filling stations on some hotels and providing these hotels with aluminum bottles for the folks staying in the hotel so hotels can provide water to their guests and stop plastic pollution.
Probably planting trees as effectively it's free to scatter seeds you find.
Well, a certain cadre of income is responsible for the lion's share of western emissions. Maybe you could use that money to "influence" them.