The most important climate solution is YOU.
Every year, since 1970, we’ve heard that the latest technology is going to save the environment and make everything so much better. And yet, as technology adoption has exploded, the environment has gone into a death spiral.
Today, nearly every service people use and every product consumers buy has a fossil fuel somewhere in how it is made or delivered.
Welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants
The software bloat, as in the case of Microsoft Windows 11, deliberately obsoletes your old hardware, which is perfectly operable.
Willen we onze kinderen en kleinkinderen beschermen tegen de gevaren van klimaatverandering dan moeten we zo snel mogelijk af van fossiele brandstoffen.
We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living.
Every day we make choices in our lives that affect the environment, the climate and other species. From what we eat to how many children we decide to have, there’s a lot we can do.
Climate change isn’t all your fault. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do about it.
The problem is that we do not often see the true ugliness of the consumer economy and so are not compelled to do much about it.
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David Orr
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David Orr
Every tenth of a degree global warming matters!
Obligatory hope to avert climate disaster, provides an excuse for inaction on a personal level
Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change
We have done more damage to the environment in the last 50 years than in the previous 200,000.
To have any hope of meeting the central goal of the Paris Agreement, which is to limit global warming to 2°C or less, our carbon emissions must be reduced considerably
We have a perpetual desire to buy more and more to fill our lives. All the while, our lives become more empty.
Feeling guilty about past emissions doesn’t help.
Despite decades of ever more urgent warnings, humanity is failing to address the climate crisis
What can I do, personally, about the climate crisis?
We are in a full blown Climate Crisis
As the hard realities of climate change become clearer in our daily lives, taking responsibility for mitigating these effects is a front-of-mind issue.
There is increasing recognition that behaviour change — not just technical innovation — is required to tackle climate change.
A “high” standard of living — one with private vehicles, air travel, on-demand goods, limitless computing power, nutritious food and constant amusement — is energy and emissions intensive.
How is large-scale change made, if not from an accumulation of smaller changes?
How can we not do everything in our power to stop climate change?
There’s so much in our lives that we consume, because we want to consume it not because we need to consume it.
We moeten hemel en aarde bewegen om ruim onder de twee graden opwarming te blijven.
Recycling is a scam meant to give consumers the illusion of being environmentally responsible without having to change their lifestyles.
We are jeopardizing our future by not reining in our intense but geographically and demographically uneven material consumption…
By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.….
By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.….
We have to agree how much carbon we can each emit within the limits of what the planet can bear – then make good lives within those boundaries
Het vergt lef om de klimaatwerkelijkheid onder ogen te zien
Dr. Bianca Harms
Dr. Bianca Harms
The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking
It is important that we develop a shared understanding of the basic science and impacts of climate change, to make sense of our actions and policy options going forward.
As the urgency of our global crises continues to rise, immediate behavior change is greatly needed, if we are to effectively address these challenges
If the planet is not heating up, why are the oceans getting warmer?
We used to think that the farther you went from home was what made a good vacation. Now we know that it’s really more about the journey.
Remember when we got out of school at 5 PM and we wouldn’t hear from our teachers until the next morning? That freedom no longer exists for our kids. Schools — from teachers to group mates, from gossip to bullies — now have access to our kids 24/7. Just like our work often does. And, that’s pretty bad.
The problems of today should be understood and dealt with
at a developmental level
John Bowlby
at a developmental level
John Bowlby
Wij vragen burgers om reizen per vliegtuig zo veel mogelijk te vervangen door klimaatvriendelijk vervoer en het te beperken en het te compenseren.
People simply don’t want to read how dire the situation is
without some hope that we can still avert disaster
without some hope that we can still avert disaster
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it.
Advertising at its best is making people feel that without their product, you’re a loser. Kids are very sensitive to that.
Nancy Shalek
Nancy Shalek
Climate change will surely get worse before it gets better
Every year for the rest of your life will be one of the hottest [on] record.
I feel deeply our responsibility to this incredible planet that we call home.
Our individual behaviors are pivotal in creating a better shared future,
one with fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a stable climate to live in.
one with fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a stable climate to live in.
The transition to a sustainable society is one of the greatest challenges of our time
We’re not on this planet to consume.
Cars were a great invention for people who depended on horses to get where trains and trams wouldn’t take them and to carry things the last mile. To build an entire civilization around it, was the worst idea, ever.
We cannot address climate catastrophe without tackling its root cause: fossil fuel dependence
Every informed voice counts
Our western society is completely trespassing Earth’s boundaries. We are not ready and not even preparing to limit those impacts and adapt.
As climate change accelerates, each decision we make can either contribute to the problem or help solve it
As a firefighter, I’m usually called to the scene when it’s far to late for prevention
and all that’s left is a vague hope for damage control.
We do what is neccessary under great personal risk for our health and life, not knowing if it’s even possible to change the outcome.
I feel the same calling from the climate crisis right now!
and all that’s left is a vague hope for damage control.
We do what is neccessary under great personal risk for our health and life, not knowing if it’s even possible to change the outcome.
I feel the same calling from the climate crisis right now!
The extent to which we see ourselves – consciously or otherwise – as Consumers is a root cause of pretty much every major problem our society faces today.
no matter where we live,
climate change is already affecting us today
climate change is already affecting us today
Every product we purchase has an environmental footprint, from the materials used to create it to the pollution emitted during manufacturing to the packaging that ends up in landfills and incinerators
We have too much advertising in too many places in our lives, and that advertising is endorsing and normalising a set of cultural values that are deeply unhelpful to our society.
I am sick and tired of the never ending expectation of consumption. The message is tirelessly beat into our heads. Buy buy buy! Consume!
There’s no regard for the environment and no regard for humanity. It’s the unrealistic demands of never ending growth.
There’s no regard for the environment and no regard for humanity. It’s the unrealistic demands of never ending growth.
The marketing industry convincing us that we can only be beautiful, happy, young, that we can only have friends, if we consume the right things.
The shift from consumer to citizen is a truly big idea
The negative association between materialism and well-being is currently almost an axiom in psychology and consumer research
I hate to be such a Debbie Downer, always offering so many gloomy posts — but I’m afraid that’s just the reality we’re living in
The way that we’re living on the planet, using fossil fuels to power our lives, has changed our climate.
Do people realise if biomass was an alternative (to fossil fuels) it would only last a year at best, to burn every hydrocarbon of the surface of the earth. How is that sustainable or renewable?
Sustainable consumption plays a major role in the transition to a more sustainable society.
I don’t expect to make a difference with those who deny science. Banging my head against a wall is not an activity I find worthwhile. For those who have at least one toe in the real world, I hope what I post here makes a difference.
We need a complete change of mindset.
Zonder begrip van de materie bij de bevolking zal er geen draagvlak ontstaan voor het klimaatbeleid, en zal ook de noodzakelijke gedragsverandering van de consument uitblijven.
The currently prevailing focus on cleaning the supply side needs to be complemented with demand-side measures.