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 boundariesDr. Diana Ivanova
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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!Chemist and firefighter Mark
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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!Chemist and firefighter Mark
social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/111760667787039005
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 OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
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 OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
The shift from consumer to citizen is a truly big ideaDame Fiona Reynolds
Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us a book by Jon Alexander | uk.bookshop.org/p/books/citizens-jon-alexander/7315064?ean=9781912454884
Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us a book by Jon Alexander | uk.bookshop.org/p/books/citizens-jon-alexander/7315064?ean=9781912454884
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 incinerators12 Ways to Live More Sustainably | biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/sustainability/live_more_sustainably.html