A Climate Change Collective Article
This month our Climate Change Collective lead post is about how making a difference doesn’t have to be perfect. Saving the planet cannot be achieved by one person giving it their all. We need to work together on this.
There are so many elements to climate change that it can seem confusing and overpowering if you are trying to live a sustainable life. But this month’s post by Molly at Transatlantic Notes is showing ways that we can make manageable changes without having to be perfect.
Check out the eye-opening post here:
My Thoughts On This
I know how hard it is to make changes to our lives. Transport can be a nightmare and we are a society who have grown to rely on cars and planes.
I still drive a petrol car as I haven’t transitioned to an electric one yet. But I have stopped using aeroplanes to travel the world. I now take almost all of my holidays by rail and the rest as cruises.
This is far from perfect but I have also replaced local car journeys with walking or by taking public transport. At some point I need to think about changing workplaces to somewhere within walking distance but that is something I am holding out on as I feel particularly secure where I work.
I am making a real effort to recycle more. There are items in the past that I would have thrown in the black bin rather than clean out or separate for recycling but I now make that extra effort.
As Molly says in her article, we need to do whatever we can. Humans are far from perfect and we cannot change everything everywhere all at once.
Final Thoughts
The Climate Change Collective is written by a group of bloggers who are passionate about tackling climate change and spreading the word about this nightmare.
If you want to get to know some of us better, have a look at this introductions post by Krista and Alison from A Sustainably Simple Life blog.
If you would like to be involved in writing for our collective, please get in touch either in the comments or via X. Saving the planet is a team effort.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, and for all the changes you are personally making. I think it is amazing that you have decided to stop air travel when going on vacation and finding other ways to get around.
Thanks for sharing, Jamie. Some of these points reminded me of a Netflix docuseries called Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, which I recently watched. A few others reminded me of documentaries done by The Minimalists, one on Netflix and one on YouTube. If I haven’t mentioned them to you yet (I may have), I highly recommend all of them.
Thanks for those. I will have a look on Youtube.
You’re welcome. I can provide you with links to both their websites if you want.