Three Ways That You, the Individual, Can Get Involved In Global Warming Prevention
 
#1--The Left-Right Express for Global Warming Prevention:
 
How far away do you live from school or work? If it’s a few city blocks, walking to there can make all the difference in the world in terms of personal global warming prevention. So can catching a bus or carpooling. 33% of the US's CO2 emissions come from cars and other vehicles. Lessening the amount of gasoline you use will not only cut the strain you're putting on your wallet, it will also ultimately help the rest of the city do the same thing. High traffic conditions waste more gasoline than any other driving phenomenon. If you and even fifty other people decide to walk, car pool, or use the bus system on any given day, you're helping relax the traffic problems in the city, and thus helping in the global warming prevention effort.
 
#2--You are what you... buy?
 
Buy products that are ecologically friendly. It might not seem like a big thing, but it is. If people support products that are ecologically friendly, then other products will either be modified to reflect consumer demand, or go the way of the dodo. This can go miles in terms of global warming prevention. Do a little research and pay attention to what you're buying--and thus supporting. Writing paper treated with heavy bleaches and made from non-recycled sources, for instance, contributes to global warming in two ways; the method for whitening the paper produces greenhouse gases, and the paper itself is basically tree-blood. (Okay, maybe I'm going too far with that one, but it did come from wood, which came from a tree, which was helping drink up some of the CO2 we're trying to remove from the atmosphere.)

Buying recycled paper whitened with peroxide supports the green-sensitive industry, which gives such companies more funds for investing in other green-projects, advertising current green-products, etc. Consumer power is vastly underrated in the mind of the modern American. Seventh Generation, a company that produces environmentally friendly household products, postulated that "if every household in the US replaced just one roll of 1000 sheets of toilet paper with recycled toilet paper, could save 373,000 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of landfill space (equal to over 1682 full garbage trucks), 155 million gallons of water (a years supply for 4465 families of four) and avoid 62,000 pounds of pollution." There's another important global warming prevention tip.
 
#3--The Hard Global Warming Prevention Tip. (Affirmative Action! Gulp!)
 
Making a fuss about the environment, of course, opens you up to all sorts of negative attention (Mostly from lazy oafs who don't want to bother to clean up behind themselves.) Affirmative action, however, is the single best way to help prevent global warming. Find out about local environmental issues in the area, join the local chapter of the Sierra Club, and pitch a hissy fit until you get your way. It really does work. Letters to congressmen, picketing rallies, marches, and even commercial gimmicks from green-friendly industries all help promote and further social sensitivity toward global warming. Plus, you get to meet a lot of awesome people. That’s never bad; and that's a good way to practice global warming prevention.
 
Affirmative action is the only way to make monopolies, like the coal-guzzling mid-western KCP&L company, listen. The only way to make people who have money invested in unsafe environmental policies care is to get into their faces, shake them by the proverbial white collar, and tell them they're being idiots if they don't get involved in global warming prevention efforts.