First Step into Climate Action, Easier than You Think.”By Hassan Jalil

Change, whether it is ecological, economic, or social, is inevitable. Some of it will be tragic. We will lose things we love, many places, our relationships with the non-human world that have endured for a thousand years.

Some changes will be hard to predict. Ecosystems will reshuffle, species will evolve. Currently, our biggest shared challenge is climate change in an ecosystem we live in. If it appears enormous, we as individuals can't stop it as we're enmeshed in a system in which it is impracticable to stop further addition to the problem.

It is obvious that living requires something to eat, staying warm in winter and cool enough in summer to work and sleep. But now it's impossible to do these things without producing some change in our environment. (Yoolandamaree,2020)

According to a report that unveils that we will mitigate in the late 20th and 21st centuries as a painful and unsettled throughout which humanity learned to prosper in positive relations with each other and the environment around them, however, minor changes will happen quicker than most of us think. (National Geographic,2011)

Throughout history, we've been each creative inventors and fast to adopt new technologies. But a massive part of our community is concerned, impatient, and downright fearful about climate change. People accept science, but many haven't taken any steps towards action. The road towards daily transition includes daily basis decisions within your reach, like driving less and using public transport, switching to green energy production methods, and changing the way you eat and buy things.

Of course, we all know that climate change won't be solved by our buying and eating habits alone, but individually we can take steps on a very initial level to save our environment and climate. (Carbon Brief, 2018) For example, We can use energy wisely, make profound decisions about our food habits and food wastage by consuming less, investing in renewable, and divesting from fossil fuels, joining and supporting youth-led movements, and spreading their word to common people. The last one is getting politically active and voting for the leaders at all government levels who take climate change seriously.

Obviously, climate change requires us to work together, and can't do that without sharing a common ground with those who may not share our climate perspective. In this case, social media will play a very important role.

Whatever we need to do is to convey our message to them, and without using social and digital means, we can not do anything positive. Because we all know that shaping the minds of the people of our country, Pakistan is not so easy, and it can be only done by the use of social media to reach as many people as possible. Using such types of platforms, we can request people to promote climate services that are user-oriented and reflect the value of both statistical and predictive knowledge of climate change.

Hence our first step in this climate action will be to raise awareness among the people by using a common platform, on which we can bring a lot of people to share their opinions and reviews by joining our digital campaign and play their part in the climate change because this first step is easier than you think.

References: National Geographic, Carbon Brief 2018