The Planet in Peril

A lot of posters claim to have strong views on global warming but do very little themselves to address it? Surely if your views are so strong, then stop towing or motor homing? Get a bike? I see little of this on this thread just a lot of 'pontification' if I may say so, only Brue has shown a way forward. If you really believe the planet is in peril then do something about it yourself, then others may follow?

the Op asked what individuals are doing:

What changes to our leisure pursuits and lives do folk think will make that difference for our future generations?

Not the club, but you. Can anyone else answer that rather than a lot of viewpoints that it is happening?

Me - I recycle my rubbish and drive lower emission vehicles than in the past. 

Is that my choice because I believe all the bumf that’s out there, or is it because I have little or no choice but to follow that course?

Hmm, while it’s common sense not to fill every dip in the landscape with rubbish or to pollute the air we breath more than we have to, it’s very much a case of I do it because I have to and not because I believe all the hype. 

I'm doing my bit as well TW. Now I have retired I do many fewer miles not driving to and from work and travelling all over Cheshire on works business.

This is an interesting article, especially if you think that the underlying cause of the Earth's problems are primarily around population.

https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/population-environment

Yes, that's it, the standard method for club and its members to do something positive, retire and do less miles. I feel so much better now.

I'll go further personally, I'll stop using the car to take the cassette to the emptying point.

well Zefram Cochrane will along soon

I’d forgotten that, Easy. No longer do I commute daily or hare around the SW and into Wales on a regular basis. Good point👍🏻

Mind you, sometimes I’d let the highly polluting diesel train take the strain.

Well, I’ve certainly done my bit in helping to reduce population growth.

Taking your question at face value, about changes we make to our present lives...

Practical measures, among others, include: solar panels on the roof, so helping cut generation emissions;  driving less; sourcing food more locally when possible (less "air miles"), also eating more organic food so cutting reliance on industrial farm fertilisers, often oil-based, which only make ground reliant on ever more use of them, reduce its ability to sink carbon, and create huge environmental problems in both production and use; cutting the amount of meat eaten; keeping old machinery like computers running longer rather than tipping them, so saving resources as well as landfill; little things like switching off unnecessary lights, not idling car engine' trying to find lower energy ways of running our household, and more.
Leisure - rarely using air travel for a start. Cycling holidays - sadly not practical in our case for health reasons. Only towing a small caravan with low drag while using a relatively economical car to do so, driving "conservatively" without being a drag on the road behind.

In general - reading research and trying to evaluate what's just bunk, what's scientifically rigorous, and what's got industry behind it trying to skew the truth and spin the statistics. Not trusting what some newspapers are keen to tell us.

There's lots more - others are welcome to add, but these are some of the ones we find to be workable. I'd love to have things like ground effect central heating but we'd need lots more capital (and also more land) for that to work.

I hope this helps.

“Taking your question at face value”

That’s probably a mistake