blog action day: environment Posted on October 16th
Blog Action Day is today. (Or rather yesterday but I haven’t slept yet so it still counts, I think.) The topic is the environment. Here are some things that our household does that our community makes easy:
Compost food scraps and recycle the rest.
Buy local.
Use alternative modes of transportation.
Reduce meat and buy local, humane sources.
Talk with elected representatives (and fellow citizens) about issues.
What do you do to help and what more should we do?
I don’t know how to sound anything but alarmist when it comes to the environment and climate change. In my short life, I have seen massive changes. It seems a little absurd to deny that irrevocable changes are being made by our presence on this planet and I don’t know anyone anymore who does deny. So that leaves what to do about it. I think that each person should make conscious efforts to change their behaviors. However, I think without definitive leadership from the federal level with sweeping changes impacting the status quo (read: funding and law changes), we won’t change course much. All the incentives are in the wrong place. But maybe people talking will get the ball rolling. Here’s hoping.
