Helping out Mother Earth is not as difficult as we imagine.
However you feel about it, Climate Change is here and playing out in front of our eyes, if we are lucky, and in front of us, if we are not. There by the grace of God go I...how terrifying and devastating it must be to live in and among that part of America that is burning right now.
Yes, it is drought and lightening and a gender reveal party that have sparked it, but apart from the latter stupidity, everything else is the cause of our combined actions. The result of the earth heating up due to the ozone layer slowly becoming more porous because of our combined love of consumption. A change is needed or to put it another way, not an option but a must.
Personally, I find it ironic and slightly short sighted of parents that do everything within their power to give their kids a great education yet they don't realize that continuing the way they live their lives means that the future for their kids is anything but certain. At the moment it is California that is hard hit but who's to say that it won't be you, you or you next?
Slowly but surely Bob and I are changing the way we consume stuff by asking ourselves if we need what we want to buy. Looking around our house I can see plenty of examples where we have failed...what we thought was indispensable now lays about gathering dust after being used once or twice. Shameful, but we are trying to become more aware of our actions.
The one area where both of us have done well in terms of doing our bit for climate change, is our diet. Vegan diets should be the norm not the exception when you consider how much one person can achieve.
The Vegan Calculator has given these results for one person being vegan for 30 months.
Liters of water saved: 3,789,149
Square meters of forest saved: 2,548
Kg of grain saved: 16,471
Kg of Co2 saved: 8,281
Animals saved: 910
As I have said before, even if only half or a quarter of these numbers are correct, they amount to a huge saving and it goes to show that each and every one of us can make a difference...and should.
Biggi
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