Businesses won't do it without the government forcing them to do it. Cutting back on these type of regulations is always a bad thing. He already rolled back the Clean Water Initiative. The main goal behind that is for corporations to get away with more **** and lower costs on their end for more profit that will never go to their workers and is a detriment to the rest of us.

Over a hundred and ninety countries have signed up to The Paris Agreement, so it's the key to any kind of concerted effort to reduce global warming. Perhaps most of us already know what the agreement does and doesn't do, but if not, here's an easy-to-digest guide which is pretty good even though it's two years out of date:-



Commendable though it is, The Paris Agreement isn't much more than a statement of intent, by which countries are hoping to limit global warming to 2°C. Even if countries achieve the goals they are voluntarily setting themselves, it's not certain that that will be enough to avert a global disaster. So let's not become complacent. It'd be a mistake to imagine that with the Paris Agreement we can stop worrying about the effects of global warming.

^ That'd be nice of course, goofle, but I think we need some government intervention and incentives to push things in the desired direction. It's no good leaving a chocolate cake in a roomfull of small children and saying, "Hopefully they'll just take a small slice each and leave some for later."
EDIT: dj has just made this same point more powerfully. Thanks!

Arctic ‘Doomsday’ Vault, Meant To Protect Against Disasters, Gets Flooded After Permafrost Melts

"The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, more commonly known as the "Doomsday Vault," houses more than 800,000 important crop seeds, as well as several tree samples, that humanity would need in order to survive should a global natural or man-made disaster occur.

The vault itself is located 400 feet under the Arctic permafrost and is strong enough to survive even a nuclear holocaust, but the Norwegian government, who is in charge of the vault, did not take into consideration that the ice surrounding the stronghold would melt and flood the facility, which is exactly what just happened."

Impeach him.

Impeach Schnapps him.

Impeach brandy>>

So aside from curbing gas emissions, what other avenues can people take on a large scale that would hinder the current rate?

Everybody should turn up their air conditioning and open their windows.

Go vegan. :D or at least reduce animal product consumption.

I'd rather drown.

I mean, experiencing Waterworld is probably a lot more enjoyable than watching it.