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Ten lessons for young climate activists

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1. More layers
Don’t keep turning the thermostat up when wearing just a tee shirt. We’re saving the planet at that 18° setting. Put on more layers.

2. Plastics
Look for well-made clothes fashioned from linen, wool, cotton or even hemp. The other stuff – stretchy, spangly, fleecy, non-crease – is made from plastics or oil-derived synthetics. Don’t keep buying new cheap throw-way stuff from Asos and suchlike – you’re either serious about the planet or about Instagram. And learn to darn your socks and sew buttons – if your grandfather can do it so can you

3. Lights
When you leave a room, turn the light off. When you leave a room unoccupied for any length of time, turn the radiator off or down to the lowest setting. Don’t leave stuff on ‘standby’. Dont leave chargers on all the time.

4. Shoes
Cheap glued Chinese and Asian shoes and trainers made from plastics, synthetic rubbers and oil-derived fabrics that last only a few months are killing the planet and choking landfill. Invest in well-made long-lasting footwear from UK makers – leather for preference.

5. Coffee
We know you don’t like Starbucks any more, but Costa and the fake-brand ‘artisan’ chains owned by big-name global corporates are just as bad. Make your coffee at home, take a thermos and donate £9 a day to a climate change charity instead

6. Reuse and recycle
This doesn’t mean just chucking stuff into the right bin but not chucking stuff away at all. Why does everything have to be new? What’s wrong with your old phone that we need to poison the world with rare-earth cyanides and enslave children in Asian factories just so you can have a new one every year?

7. Walk and take the bus
Your parents are not free Uber. Maybe if you didn’t keep treating them like it they wouldn’t need that huge SUV in the drive. Walk. Take the bus. Lose a few pounds.

8. Help with the vegetable patch
A little help tilling and weeding the veg patch wouldn’t come amiss. You’re missing just how much growing our own French beans for the freezer saves the planet. And ditch avocados. Where do you imagine they come from? Somerset? Learn to love courgettes.

9. Forget Festivals
Don’t even think about Glastonbury. It’s not the fact that you throw away 80,000 plastic tents each year and create 5,000 tonnes of unrecyclable landfill waste but your travel carbon costs are killing the planet – fan travel costs make up 80% – 90% and performer travel costs the balance. And we’re talking 10,000 tonnes of CO2 in total for Glasto.

10. Copy your grandparents
 Remember, your grandparents were saving the planet long before you were born. Brewing their own beer, making and mending their own clothes, keeping hens, growing food, making jam and cycling and trips in their old 2CV. You may be surprised that they regard you as an insufferable self-absorbed eco-lout trashing finite resources who talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk.         


Source: http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2019/09/ten-lessons-for-young-climate-activists.html


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