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41. Good observations.

But there are things that all of us can do to help with climate change and help other species. We can sponsor the planting of a native nut or fruit tree in a state forest or national forest, the tree will eventually provide food to some animals in the forest, some of which, or their offspring, will become food for their predators in the forest - all the while the tree will be cleaning out CO compounds from the air, in net.

We can go to city and county council meeting and push officials to plant native plants and shrubs on government property and road boundaries. There are plants that not only clean CO compounds from the air 24 hours per day, but also clean volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like gas fumes, petrochemical fumes, from the air 24 hours per day.

I view Musk as a publicity hungry jackass. But for us to say that a person like him need to do more to save this planet overlooks our own roles and our own actions and decisions that are impacting the planet. For example, I take two baths each day, which seems wasteful, except for one caveat, my two baths combined use less that one fifth the water that a person taking a shower under a low flow shower head would use for one bath. Just imagine if everyone bathed like I do, there would be less of a need for water reservoirs and water reclamation ponds, the land now used for those purposes could be made into forestland and land that contain other air cleaning plant species, helping negate the rise of CO and organic compounds in the air.

But I can do more and I am trying, for example, even as a single person, I generate 2-3 gallons of trash each day - most of that trash is not in reclaimable packaging. So I have two challenges, as I look at my choices. First, keep changing my personal decision-making to source more packaging that can be reclaimed or recycled. Second, as an engineer and businessperson, help develop new technologies to product biodegradable and/or compostable materials that stand up to the demands of our single-use culture.

I don't disagree with you about Musk, in total agreement there, with the exception that people like him have any more of an obligation to fight climate change than we have.