What is the easiest thing I can do to be more eco-friendly?

This is one of many sites on the Internet that will give you good tips to employ in your day-to-day life.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/17/climate-change-30-ways-to-make-your-life-more-environmentally-friendly/39366589/

There is a lot you can do that is very simple, from reducing plastic usage to changing up cleaning products.

Don’t drive if you don’t have to. If you can, walk.

It really depends on what you consider easy. I’d look to some of the most resource intensive that might be nice, but ultimately you could live without. Drive, don’t fly. Wear used clothes. Extend the life of your electronics. Shore up/upgrade your heating/cooling systems. Eat local. Line dry your clothes. Drive used cars.

You can recycle.

Start a compost area in your backyard, if possible.
Purchase eco friendly bags for shopping so you don’t have to use plastic.
I’m a big fan of picking up trash on my dog walks.

Reducing/eliminating meat and other animal derived food products is one of the biggest things you can do to help the environment, and animals.

Stop buying single use plastics. Buy things that can be refilled or that do not have plastic packaging. Every year more and more products are available that do not use plastic.

Consume less. Travel less. Don’t drive. Don’t eat meat. Don’t have children.

Live a relatively miserable and austere life as everyone else largely ignores ecological issues and think they’re saving the Earth by merely recycling.

Individual lifestyle changes are going to do diddly-squat. It might make you feel a bit more righteous or something, but your contribution is still effectively nil.

According to Oxfam, the carbon emissions of richest 1% are more than double the emissions of the poorest 50% of the world. Nothing you can do at an individual level will make any difference to that.

^ This. I had a back and forth recently in another thread with someone who was convinced that a reduction in US birth rates was good for environment.

The best we can hope to do as individuals is to be anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. The US military, besides being the terrorist arm of capital, is one of the largest polluters on the world.

@kropotkin One person can make a difference, don’t be like that! We’d never accomplish anything if we never try. :)

Stop eating out. Cook your own food. That is the easiest you can do.

@KNOWITALL – yes, actions make a difference, and people can change things, but it’s also a fucked up elitist lie that puts the burden of environmental responsibility on the consumer making choices that are hard, expensive, or inconvenient.

@Smashley True, I do understand that, but we can only fix what’s in our control.

http://www.eastgwillimbury.ca/Services/Environment/Ways_to_Reduce_Greenhouse_Gases.htm?PageMode=Print

@KNOWITALL: “but we can only fix what’s in our control”

Re-using a peanut butter jar is nice. But if we then go and support the US war machine and an economic system that is inherently unsustainable, it’s like trying to cool the ocean by throwing an ice cube in it.

What might just be “in our control” is demanding change in the very systems that are killing the planet.

@hello321 I’d like to think there’s room for both, political activism and community efforts.

My aunt was a pretty big activist and never really stopped, but she also gathered a tribe of likeminded environmentalists who really changed thing’s in their community. She was one of the people who demanded McDonalds no longer use styrofoam and now they don’t. So it does work!

^ We’re still talking about different things. McDonald’s destruction of the planet isn’t about styrofoam containers. But good on your aunt for organizing.

@hello321 And I support your idea of raging against the big bad machine, I felt the same way 20 years ago.