Five Things Jews Can Do to Stop Climate Change

The news from the United Nations on climate change is as daunting as it is depressing. The question is what can we, as individuals and as a community, do about it? The report's key finding is that human activity has already raised the planet temperature by 1.1 degree Celsius -- the reason for this summer's intense wildfires, floods, perhaps even the die-off of gray whales -- and that the planet could warm by 2, 3 or even 4 degrees Celsius, with even more catastrophic effects, over the next two to three decades.