What We Can Do As Individuals We need to reduce global warming and pollution by reducing fossil fuel usage, increasing the number of trees, and improving the availability of safe drinking water. We have already lost half of our forests and over 80 percent of illnesses globally come from polluted water.
Wind turbines can now provide over half of our electricity and reduce global warming and pollution.
Diesel fuel can be refined to be sulfur-free and use of catalytic converters can reduce diesel pollution much further. Water can be boiled or pasteurized using inexpensive solar cookers. Write legislators to encourage them to replace use of fossil fuels for urban electricty with efficient wind turbines and, for coastal areas, wave energy generators 2. Develop projects to help villages to replace use of wood for fuel in cooking with solar cookers 3. Develop projects in your own community, and with villages in other countries, to plant trees to reduce global warming, reduce pollution, increase oxygen, improve soils, and conserve water 4.