My gas solution for our collapsing climates is the second last solution in my solutions list below.

Pointing my finger at government inaction is no escape from the science that also applies to me.

My answer is: the power and the responsibility to do big and small things is mine.

Here’s my solution so far with the small things I’m doing:

· No car,

· Only public transport,

· No plane flights,

· Only local food from farmers markets,

· Eat fish, oysters - no red meat or rarely,

· Keep chooks for eggs,

· No food waste – all composted, for chooks, and to grow plants, trees, food,

· Only solar power, no gas or mains electricity,

· Only rainwater, no town water, no town sewer,

· All my sewage recycled to flush toilets, wash clothes, gardening,

· Buy nothing made overseas unless there’s no alternative. For example, last month I stopped using my 60 litre gas oven. Now, I roast, fry, re-heat in a 3.5 litre electric air fryer made in China – it’s more energy efficient and is solar powered so it costs me nothing, pollutes nothing.

NOTE: ABC Radio PM ran a 4 min 20 sec story about the air fryer and other options to cut gas use - here

· Whenever I vote I vote to change local, state and federal governments, for genuine climate activists.

What’s yours?

(What happened to my gas bill and gas use since I wrote this? Gas use and cost is now half what it was; see, here.)

Thank you, generous sun,

Michael