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What is the best way to fight climate change?
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Selected claim, supporting its parent
Individuals can help reduce carbon emissions by adopting a series of sustainable habits.
Pros
Cons
Pro claim 1, children below
Boycotting or avoiding goods with higher carbon footprints can diminish the demand for these goods, leading them to be produced less.
Pro claim 2
Saving
water
also helps cut carbon emissions, as it reduces the energy consumption involved in pumping, heating, and treating our water.
Pro claim 3
By
recycling
waste or re-using materials, people help save energy and decrease the demand for new items,
like clothes
, to be produced. Lowered production would reduce carbon emissions.
Con claim 1
Many people will refuse to adopt these habits, as they believe that climate change is a natural or inevitable process and, thus, they believe that
humans cannot control it
.
Con claim 2, children below
It can be extremely difficult to lead an acceptably sustainable lifestyle.