TakingITGlobal

In response to this problem, team members persistently expressed that individuals, including youth, need to act. Looking at yourself as an individual, there are many things you can do to reduce you own carbon footprint. Simple things like taking shorter showers, installing energy efficient systems into your home, taking city transit or car pool, the list goes on... ( C A L G A R Y , B L O G 1 C ) The inclination to prioritize individual and personal responsibility for causing and acting on climate change were prevalent throughout the project. Despite diverse geographic and cultural backgrounds, team members from Jakarta, Delhi, San Francisco, Lima, Bogotá, Accra, and Ptuj all expressed their belief in the ability of small actions to make a difference. Any amount of changes you can make to your daily life routine will make a difference. Individual choices make a difference because if I develop a habit and influence you, maybe you'll develop that habit as well, like the domino effect, it will spread that way. ( N A I R O B I , I N T E R V I E W ) This preoccupation with individual agency resonates with neoliberalism, an ideological and economic system prevalent in Western societies, in which individuals must independently take on responsibility for the environment (Dimick 2015). Neoliberalism is a formidable barrier to collective, or even personal, action (Kent 2009; Norgaard 2011). As the project progressed, team members began to challenge if individual action would be enough, expressing the need to upscale and aggregate individual actions, as captured in many 42 | F I N D I N G S

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