https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/29/no-flights-four-day-week-climate-scientists-home-save-planet
I found this to be a very convincing article by climate scientists, about changes they've made in they own lives.
What have I done?
- the last flight I took was in 1959.
- our car does less than 5000 miles per year, (mostly him, to and from model flying field) Could be improved quite a bit. We live at the top of a steep hill, but I could walk down to the shops more often, even if it took more time and effort. We both dislike driving anywhere nowadays and do cut down as much as we can.
- our holidays are always in the UK, partly because the dog comes too, but also because we don't like it hot, and we feel mountains and moorlands in the UK are just as beautiful as anywhere else. We're immune to the pity of people who regard us as stick-in-the-muds who never go anywhere.
- nearly vegetarian; we were totally veggie for 25 years but then lapsed a bit. Trying to improve on this.
-house fully insulated, solar hot water, PV panels generate some of our electricity.
-Garden only has one patch of raspberries and two apple trees, so food production v.low apart from eggs. Eggs from my own hens important part of our diet. I used to have a productive allotment as well, but it became too hard work for me to maintain.
-Wildlife-friendly garden, lots of ground cover, trees and shrubs, flowers for pollinators, hedgehog houses, large pond. Guerrilla gardening in uncultivated field beyond our back gate - illegal planting of 20+ mixed flowering and fruiting native trees, now growing vigorously.
- ATM, am co-ordinating a group of local residents to oppose application for building on this public-access, uncultivated field, which has been rewilding for several years. It's taking up a massive lot of my time.
- I don't have a bamboo toothbrush. I think my electric one does a better job. I also use normal detergents, soaps, toilet cleaner etc. I make up for these sins by not actually doing any cleaning very much, unless visitors are due.
- I do enjoy online shopping, and try to convince myself that actually I'm saving CO2 etc by getting stuff delivered to me, including our plastic-wrapped weekly online food shopping, rather than driving some distance to buy it myself. I try -and often fail- to be immune to Sale offers from online clothing firms that I like.
-One daughter lives in deepest Dorset, is massively active in Extinction Rebellion. The other one flies a lot, has a chalet in the south of France, pops down there for skiing holidays and occasional weekends, and is now planning a holiday in Mozambique. She's a lovely person nevertheless.
i'd be very interested in the lifestyle confessions of others?
I found this to be a very convincing article by climate scientists, about changes they've made in they own lives.
What have I done?
- the last flight I took was in 1959.
- our car does less than 5000 miles per year, (mostly him, to and from model flying field) Could be improved quite a bit. We live at the top of a steep hill, but I could walk down to the shops more often, even if it took more time and effort. We both dislike driving anywhere nowadays and do cut down as much as we can.
- our holidays are always in the UK, partly because the dog comes too, but also because we don't like it hot, and we feel mountains and moorlands in the UK are just as beautiful as anywhere else. We're immune to the pity of people who regard us as stick-in-the-muds who never go anywhere.
- nearly vegetarian; we were totally veggie for 25 years but then lapsed a bit. Trying to improve on this.
-house fully insulated, solar hot water, PV panels generate some of our electricity.
-Garden only has one patch of raspberries and two apple trees, so food production v.low apart from eggs. Eggs from my own hens important part of our diet. I used to have a productive allotment as well, but it became too hard work for me to maintain.
-Wildlife-friendly garden, lots of ground cover, trees and shrubs, flowers for pollinators, hedgehog houses, large pond. Guerrilla gardening in uncultivated field beyond our back gate - illegal planting of 20+ mixed flowering and fruiting native trees, now growing vigorously.
- ATM, am co-ordinating a group of local residents to oppose application for building on this public-access, uncultivated field, which has been rewilding for several years. It's taking up a massive lot of my time.
- I don't have a bamboo toothbrush. I think my electric one does a better job. I also use normal detergents, soaps, toilet cleaner etc. I make up for these sins by not actually doing any cleaning very much, unless visitors are due.
- I do enjoy online shopping, and try to convince myself that actually I'm saving CO2 etc by getting stuff delivered to me, including our plastic-wrapped weekly online food shopping, rather than driving some distance to buy it myself. I try -and often fail- to be immune to Sale offers from online clothing firms that I like.
-One daughter lives in deepest Dorset, is massively active in Extinction Rebellion. The other one flies a lot, has a chalet in the south of France, pops down there for skiing holidays and occasional weekends, and is now planning a holiday in Mozambique. She's a lovely person nevertheless.
i'd be very interested in the lifestyle confessions of others?
