But why should you care about individual actions when this is literally a planetary issue?

There’s a great RFK quote from the 60s about “tiny ripples of hope” — which cross each other and become a sweeping current. The gist is that small, individual actions matter greatly.

—> For example, starting a pollinator garden in your yard feeds bees & butterflies (and it can increase your home value).

—> Then your neighbor might peep over the fence, see the good work, and copy you.

—> When your neighbors go on vacation next month, they might tell their friends about their new garden, and those friends might go back to their own towns and start their own gardens.

By then, we have a lot of happy butterflies and the Zillow estimate on your house has never looked better. (This concept has come up a lot recently with solar panels, where you’re way more likely to install them if a neighbor already has.)

So don’t think your climate actions don’t matter. They do.

Thanks for being here — let’s cool off these hot bones.