The title is a little heavy. Sorry.
But I really feel strong grief over how the planet has been treated by mankind and now we feel the effects through climate change. I don't have science education beyond Year 10, but I understand the need to be environmentally conscientious. It's not really a topic that's discussed much among my friends and workmates, so I felt really alone in my grief. One night, I searched in Google for 'grief over climate change' and found this: http://isthishowyoufeel.weebly.com/t...ists-feel.html This helped to validate my grief but also gave me some optimism.
If I think about this too much, I get overwhelmed. I feel helpless because I'm really just a consumer. I can't engineer anything new to replace fuel sources or invent a biodegradable alternative to plastic. I can only work with the choices I have. The very naive part of me used to believe that if things got too bad, then other people would step up and create these alternatives for us and they would be cost-effective. Instead, I see a last-ditch effort to rip from the earth the already vastly depleted resources in one final push to get rich. I know I can't trust other people to do this stuff for me. I have to make it happen for myself. All I can do is keep my own conscious as clean as I can. My choices create the market for environmentally sustainable products. It feels a small impact, but it counts.
I try to make better choices wherever I can. Some of the things I do are:
- use cloth nappies instead of disposables
- be diligent at recycling
- keep one car
- reduce waste by buying fresh food and cook instead of buying packaged food
- use reusable bags instead of plastic bags when I go to the markets
- keep a worm farm for my garden instead of buying fertilizers
- make my own cleaning products when I have time
Have you ever felt grief like me? What have you done to change the way you live?
But I really feel strong grief over how the planet has been treated by mankind and now we feel the effects through climate change. I don't have science education beyond Year 10, but I understand the need to be environmentally conscientious. It's not really a topic that's discussed much among my friends and workmates, so I felt really alone in my grief. One night, I searched in Google for 'grief over climate change' and found this: http://isthishowyoufeel.weebly.com/t...ists-feel.html This helped to validate my grief but also gave me some optimism.
If I think about this too much, I get overwhelmed. I feel helpless because I'm really just a consumer. I can't engineer anything new to replace fuel sources or invent a biodegradable alternative to plastic. I can only work with the choices I have. The very naive part of me used to believe that if things got too bad, then other people would step up and create these alternatives for us and they would be cost-effective. Instead, I see a last-ditch effort to rip from the earth the already vastly depleted resources in one final push to get rich. I know I can't trust other people to do this stuff for me. I have to make it happen for myself. All I can do is keep my own conscious as clean as I can. My choices create the market for environmentally sustainable products. It feels a small impact, but it counts.
I try to make better choices wherever I can. Some of the things I do are:
- use cloth nappies instead of disposables
- be diligent at recycling
- keep one car
- reduce waste by buying fresh food and cook instead of buying packaged food
- use reusable bags instead of plastic bags when I go to the markets
- keep a worm farm for my garden instead of buying fertilizers
- make my own cleaning products when I have time
Have you ever felt grief like me? What have you done to change the way you live?
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