It's got to that bit of Christmas when I'm sick of both coke and my family so I'm on Letsrun.
Only me said:
"We don't need to wait around for governments to decide big plans to have a big personal impact on climate change - swap your big car for a smaller one, insulate your house, use public transport (take the train instead of flying), just buy less stuff - if everyone cut their carbon emissions by 50%, they wouldn't have to change their lifestyles greatly and we could achieve a 20% reduction in total emissions. I don't mind doing that, the question is: why do you?"
Only me, if you're reading I'm pretty interested in this. Have you cut your carbon emissions by 50%? Would you mind letting me know a little more about how you achieved that? What date are you taking as the "before" here? What have been the financial consequences for you?
Personally I don't think I'm really in a position to cut my carbon emissions by 50%. I'm natually pretty parsimonious I don't head my (small) appartment very much, I don't have a car and I go shopping once a year (Christmas Eve). To cut my carbon emissions by 50% I would need to make a dramatic lifestyle change.