Animals raised for food contribute more carbon emissions to the atmosphere than all forms of transportation combined. I can't afford an electric car yet, but I also can't afford to eat animals. They're bad for me. They're carcinogenic and harmful to my cardiovascular health and, most importantly, killing and abusing others because I'm too lazy to find another way to survive is bad for my spirit.

For that same reason, I will pressure my political leaders from the city assembly all the way up to the president and every corrupt beefeater in between to stop our country from conducting terror campaigns against other countries (and our own citizens). We waste an unrecoverable amount of resources and create more harm to the earth and our fellow human beings through this selfishness than we can ever repair. Our species cannot survive this century if we will not evolve enough to stop institutionalizing violence.

Yes, I'll recycle everything at my home, work, and school that can be recycled in my town and advocate for expansion of our recycling program. I'll also recycle my body by donating blood when the blood bank comes to town and keeping myself a healthy candidate for organ donation, and part of that will be riding my bicycle more. But the most important thing I can do to save the world for the next generation is to bring peace to the earth beginning with me.