Patricia asks, "What's the single best thing a person can do for tomorrow's world?" How would you answer this?

Patricia asks, "What's the single best thing a person can do for tomorrow's world?" How would you answer this?

Plant trees! It's been researched that if enough trees are planted, climate change can be slowed.

Agree with NancyL. Also work to preserve the beautiful spaces that still exist and exert our voting rights to make sure government officials support and sustain them.

Planting trees, as Nancy mentions above, is for sure one of the best things we can do. Preserving large tracts of land and allowing those to exist in their natural state is another, and continuing to care for our national parks and wildlife areas is essential.

On the topic of tree plantings, I was deeply encouraged and inspired to read that last week Ethiopia set a world record by planting over 350 million - yes, million! - tree seedlings in a day. And they aim to plant 4 billion by the end of the rainy season!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/africa/ethiopia-plants-350-million-trees-intl-hnk/index.html

Because...

According to Farm Africa, an organization working on reforestation efforts in East Africa and helping farmers out of poverty, less than 4% of Ethiopia's land is forested, compared to around 30% at the end of the 19th century.

The landlocked country is also suffering from the effects of climate crisis, with land degradation, soil erosion, deforestation, and recurrent droughts and flooding exacerbated by agriculture. Eighty percent of Ethiopia's population depends on agriculture as a livelihood.

In 2017, Ethiopia joined more than 20 other African nations in pledging to restore 100 million hectares of land as part of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative.

A recent study estimated that restoring the world's lost forests could remove two thirds of all the planet-warming carbon that is in the atmosphere because of human activity.

Consider the down-stream consequences and collateral damage of your existence. Take ultimate responsibility for existing, and for the destructive impact of living often at the expense of nature, not in harmony with it. In as many ways as possible, do no harm.

We can only do so much as an individual. But I would say that education is the key to the success of anything.

I think wherever possible - vote - vote for people who will be pro-environment - pro protecting the eco system. If that does not work - plant trees, change habits to use less, recycle more, buy less, plant more....

I have to agree that we need to exercise our right to vote and that means getting people who care about the environment into office. And the flip side of that is getting people out of office who are blind to the irreversible damage that some of their policies are inflicting.

Pay attention to what is going on around you and protect it.

Be aware of all that can be done and do it to preserve what we have for tomorrow's generation. Preserve and replace.

In one sentence: Take care of this world! We cannot continue to use natural resources for our convenience and financial gain. Many Christians subscribe to the belief that God gave us the world to do with as we see fit which is incorrect. He made mankind stewards for the flora and fauna and entire natural world. Stewardship means to take care of it, enhance it, ensure that it continues on. It often seems that America has the greatest ability to reverse the damage done so far, yet our country's president and his administration has withdrawn from the global ecological and climate change accords and are allowing wholesale ravaging of our environment. Sadly, most citizens don't care as they either are not knowledgeable of our present descent into no turning back from climate change disaster or they don't want to be inconvenienced. As one individual said above, "Vote, vote, vote!" I would add to that, "Pray, pray, pray!"

Vote for people who care about the planet as a whole.