The Climate Crisis: Is there anything you can do?

After posting the last of my stories from Southern Africa earlier this month, I decided to take a break and think over what I might like to write about next.  As I suggested in the last story I posted, my overriding issue right now is the rapidly deteriorating state of Earth’s physical and biological environment.  But what could I write that would be useful?  So many others, both scientists and science journalists, have written volumes on the subject.  What do I know that they don’t? Thirty-five years ago, NASA Scientist, James Hansen, testified before a U.S. Senate Committee saying there was a connection between human activities and an average increase in global temperatures.  Since then, scientific research and climate observations have strengthened his 1988 assessment.  Some 97 percent of climate scientists agree that combustion of fossil fuels, animal agriculture, and other human activities which increase the percentage of carbon in the atmosphere are...