Dealing With Local weather Debt By Shifting The Blame On Everybody Else – What’s Up With It?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h / t JoNova; According to ABC, tackling the climate guilt of using disposable diapers and styrofoam coffee mugs should be done by reminding yourself that fixing climate change is truly everyone’s job and that you are not personally responsible for fixing our carbon-intensive society.
Climate need is real and rational. Here’s how to deal with it
You have the reusable cups and bags, the beeswax packaging, the shampoo bar.
You collect your cans and soft plastics and compost, recycle and reuse what you can.
They research brands to support sustainable, environmentally conscious businesses.
Why? Because you are trying to do your part for the environment and the climate.
But if you find yourself feeling anxious, guilty, or hopeless about not being able to do these things, you may have something called climate action.
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So how are you supposed to deal with the threat to our existence and daily life to somehow keep your sanity in check?
Nobody is perfect
First, realize that you won’t always be able to hit the environment and be the perfect Instagrammable eco warrior.
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“That can happen on an individual level, in terms of the things we do in our household or in terms of the decisions we make about whether to drive or drive,” says Dr. Burke.
“It could include writing to or emailing politicians or company executives who are doing things that are harmful to the environment.”
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Jess Hamilton, one of the hosts of Greenpeace’s Heaps Better podcast, recommends finding out where your banks and super funds are putting your money and switching providers if you’re not happy with the answer.
“It all comes back on money,” says Jess.
“The power of the thousands of people doing this changes their minds and affects general meetings (general meetings) and the way directors invest our money.”
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/climate-distress-and-how-to-manage-it/100029078
If you are physically able, I can assure you that it is entirely possible to massively curb your personal carbon footprint by making simple choices like growing your own food. During the brief severe economic freeze after 9/11, I had to cut a few bills, so I started growing vegetables in my back yard. I’m not saying that I was completely independent from the grocery store, but for 3 months in the summer, my household vegetable purchases almost went to zero. If I had planted high-yielding starch crops like potatoes or sweet corn, I would not have needed store-bought vegetables.
There are affordable rural or suburban properties all over the world with enough land for eco-nuts to truly live out their low-carbon fantasies. Australian rural areas are demanding people move to their districts – they are so desperate that they sometimes offer land for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The UK is more expensive but still has affordable rural property: you can buy a house with land in Powys, Wales for £ 50,000 or less. The US has entire abandoned cities, so I guess there is cheap farmland available somewhere.
You don’t need a lot of land. Even growing vegetables in a decent garden like the garden at the top of this page is enough to significantly reduce your personal carbon footprint. It will probably take you a few mornings if you want to become completely independent, but even if you become partially independent it would make a significant difference to your personal carbon footprint.
Why don’t all eco fanatics choose it? For the same reason, the polluters buy disposable diapers and coffee in disposable cups. Because most of them are too lazy to get off their bum and put in real personal efforts.
Feeling guilty, having a good shout, blaming others, writing a few letters and asking everyone else to fix their imaginary problems before sitting down to a good take away meal served in styrofoam containers. It might be hypocritical, but it’s a lot easier than pulling out a spade and digging some dirt or spending a couple of hours on your knees in the dirt pulling weeds.
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