Karlene Gist

You can make choices that help to protect peatlands, even if you live far away from one by simply campaigning or starting a fund to protect peatlands.

In my city, micro turbines can potentially be placed on farms and on the mountainous regions

I learned that 225 million women in lower-income countries say they want to be able to choose whether and when to become pregnant. But they don't have access to contraception. This also happens in some high-income countries as well, such as the United States where 45 percent of pregnancies aren't planned. I also learned that the need for family planning is important because as the world's population continues to increase, so does the need for the usage of energy. Thus the number of carbon footprints increases significantly as well. When providing family planning and listening to the needs, empowerment, and equality of women around the world can only benefit the world as a whole.

Some other reasons to care about regenerative agriculture are that regenerative agriculture also results in the enhancement of the health of the soil by restoring its carbon content. This improves productivity. It was estimated from a current adaptation of 108 million acres that regenerative agriculture could approximately increase a total of 1 billion acres by 2050. "This increase could result in a total reduction of 23.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide, from both sequestration and reduced emissions. Regenerative agriculture could provide a $1.9 trillion financial return by 2050 on an investment of $57 billion." https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food/regenerative-agriculture

I learned that the indigenous peoples' land management protects the culture and traditional lives of the people, maintains the ecosystems and biodiversity of their forests and helps those in need. Their practices include home gardens, agroforestry systems, shifting swidden cultivation, pastoral approaches to raising livestock, fire management, and community managed forests. Since the indigenous peoples' lives are based on their land, they are one of the communities that are affected the most by climate change. I can apply what I learned the indigenous peoples' land management to my own life by campaigning against deforestation just as the indigenous people.