I’ve got rid of my car in recent years. I’ll never have a car again in my life. It’s cheaper, it is better for my health, it is better for the environment, and I live in a city and am able bodied so I don’t actually need a car.
I have cut down on meat consumption n’all. I eat meat 3 days a week now. Imagine the difference if everyone did the same.
Of course comparing one household to three big contributor countries is going to be a drop in the ocean. That’s a daft comparison. But If we all as individual households made little changes it would make a massive difference overall. Britain is edging ever closer to over 50% of our energy usage coming from renewables. If the entire world was doing the same thing and eventually achieving 100% then we’d be doing the human race some good.
We won’t achieve that with flippant attitudes though. We should all be doing our bit and all be putting pressure on for our countries to do their bit too. If it wasn’t for people speaking to MPs, campaigning, putting pressure on our government, we’d still be using 0% renewables. But everyone’s hard work is getting Britain towards 50% already. So let’s all do some more!
Recycling isn’t anything to do with climate change. The actual process of recycling actually adds to CO2 emissions. Despite recycling being better than landfill, it’s alternatives to plastics we need to be buying, or keeping our plastics to use again and again instead of passing the problem on to someone else to recycle them for you. But why would you stop bothering about something just because a council might be struggling with resources at the moment? That’s childish.
