wecanfixclimatechange

We can fix climate change.

If governments phase out fossil fuels from energy and transportation — soon.

We can't fix climate change if they don't. Everything else on this page serves that one outcome.

See the ten ways

The climate crisis is not a mystery, and it is not unsolvable. We know exactly what is warming the planet — burning fossil fuels — and we already have the technology to stop.

What's missing is political will. Governments and industries must lead, because only they operate at the scale the problem demands. But political will is made of people: how we vote, what we build, what we tolerate, and what we say out loud.

These are the ten ways we fix it — starting with the one that makes the rest possible.

Ten ways to fix climate change

Each one matters on its own. Together they are a plan.

Start now, without delay

Every year of delay makes the fix harder and more expensive. Urgency is the strategy.

  • Demand systemic change. Vote for climate-serious leaders and make your voice heard to the people in power.
  • Aim your effort where it multiplies. Individual footprints are fractions; governments phasing out fossil fuels is the whole number. Organize, vote, and speak up accordingly.
  • Learn the science and the solutions, and share them. A movement runs on people who understand what's possible.
  • Choose solutions over despair. Doom is a form of delay. The tools exist; hope is what puts them to work.

Build political will

Real change requires coordinated pressure on governments, businesses, and civil society — not just awareness.

  • Know the fight, not just the science. Climate inaction is a political problem with political causes.
  • Target fossil fuel influence. Expose the lobbying and money that block climate policy, and support efforts to curtail it.
  • Lead with economics. Clean energy means jobs, stable prices, and avoided catastrophe. Inaction is the expensive option.
  • Demand accountability with consequences — votes, public pressure, and boycotts that turn pledges into action.

Phase out fossil fuels

Fossil fuels are the main source of greenhouse gas emissions. Ending that is the core of the fix.

  • Make polluters pay. Price carbon so fossil fuels carry their true cost and clean energy competes fairly.
  • End the handouts. Phase out fossil fuel subsidies and redirect the money to the transition — including the workers in it.
  • Block new fossil fuel projects that would lock in decades of future emissions.
  • Attack energy waste with stronger efficiency standards for buildings, appliances, and transport.

Go all-in on renewables

Solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal are ready. Make clean energy the default, not the alternative.

  • Build the grid for it — transmission and storage that deliver renewable power reliably, whenever it's needed.
  • Tear down barriers. Cut needless red tape and use incentives to make clean energy affordable for everyone.
  • Set bold targets and act on them. Ambition without deployment is just a press release.
  • Deploy what works today at massive scale, while research continues on what comes next.

Rethink transportation

Break the reliance on fossil-fueled cars — for the climate, and for healthier, more livable places.

  • Design streets for people: safe walking, connected bike lanes, neighborhoods where daily life doesn't require a car.
  • Make transit the easy choice — reliable, affordable, frequent — with real intercity rail between hubs.
  • Electrify everything that drives. Build charging everywhere, incentivize the switch, and phase out combustion vehicles.
  • Shift the culture. Sustainable transport isn't sacrifice; it's cleaner air and better cities.

Farm with the planet

Grow food in ways that restore soil and ecosystems instead of depleting them.

  • Back farmers, not factory farms. Fund the transition to regenerative practices and stop subsidizing industrial harm.
  • End food waste. Better planning and redistribution honor the land, water, and work behind every meal.
  • Equip farmers with knowledge — education, resources, and networks for regenerative methods.
  • Hold agribusiness accountable, not shoppers. The food system's footprint is set by corporate practice and policy — demand transparency and binding standards from the companies that control it.

Eat climate-friendly

Food choices are climate choices. More plants, less waste, outsized impact.

  • Cut the most impactful meats first. Beef carries the largest footprint by far; reducing it matters most.
  • Discover plant-based abundance — beans, lentils, grains, nuts — protein-rich, delicious, and light on the planet.
  • Judge food by its carbon, not its mileage. What a food is matters far more for the climate than how far it traveled — a low-carbon plate beats a local one.
  • Waste less, share more. Plan meals, compost scraps, and pass the knowledge along.

Build sustainable cities

The places we live and work shape our emissions. Build them efficient, walkable, and resilient.

  • Make efficiency the standard. Retrofit existing buildings; hold new ones to the highest bar.
  • Design for walking and transit so daily life doesn't depend on driving.
  • Respect water — efficient fixtures, rainwater capture, green infrastructure against pollution.
  • Plan for resilience: green roofs, urban trees, and infrastructure ready for the weather that's coming.

Protect and restore nature

Forests, wetlands, and oceans are our most powerful allies — vast carbon sinks that need defending.

  • Defend what remains. Protect ecosystems through reserves, sustainable management, and opposition to destructive development.
  • Revive what's damaged. Reforestation and wetland restoration bring carbon-absorbing landscapes back to life.
  • Protect the oceans from pollution, overfishing, and the practices that erode their buffering power.
  • Join the movement. Local conservation work is climate work — volunteer, organize, speak up.

Hold the line at 1.5°C

Keep warming well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels — as close to 1.5°C as possible. This is the non-negotiable goal.

  • Slash emissions in every sector — energy, transport, industry, agriculture — on science-based timelines.
  • End deforestation now and expand the forests that pull carbon back out of the air.
  • Hold leaders to their pledges. Commitments only count when they become policy.
  • Put the vulnerable first. Prioritize solutions for the communities hit hardest by a crisis they did least to cause.

Go deeper

The science, the scorekeeping, and the solutions — from the sources that track them best.

Follow the voices worth hearing

We keep a curated list of the best climate accounts on X — scientists, journalists, and advocates tracking the fight in real time.

Follow our climate list on X

The fix is real. The window is now.

We can fix climate change if governments phase out fossil fuels from energy and transportation soon. We can't if they don't. Make them.

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