Local solutions to stop humans from destroying their environment.
We've implemented recycling maximally and created programs for reuse, repair, toxic waste, general waste reduction, battery disposal, returnables, etc. But it isn't really making a significant impact.
People still spend most of their disposable income buying things they don't need that can't be easily repaired, or that they can't bother repairing, or that they discard due to fashion, or because they are mostly packaging, etc.
We can't get them to stop buying useless stuff that they don't need. We can't stop them from buying new cars every few years.
We can't get them to spend money on quality infrastructure, like insulation, that would reduce their energy needs by about 80%.
We can't get them to stop going to restaurants or getting food delivery or take-out, which expends a multiple of the energy and greenhouse gases of cooking your own locally-sourced food.
We can't get them to understand that we're all going to die in fairly short order unless we bring the environmental disaster under control.
We've implemented recycling maximally and created programs for reuse, repair, toxic waste, general waste reduction, battery disposal, returnables, etc. But it isn't really making a significant impact.
People still spend most of their disposable income buying things they don't need that can't be easily repaired, or that they can't bother repairing, or that they discard due to fashion, or because they are mostly packaging, etc.
We can't get them to stop buying useless stuff that they don't need. We can't stop them from buying new cars every few years.
We can't get them to spend money on quality infrastructure, like insulation, that would reduce their energy needs by about 80%.
We can't get them to stop going to restaurants or getting food delivery or take-out, which expends a multiple of the energy and greenhouse gases of cooking your own locally-sourced food.
We can't get them to understand that we're all going to die in fairly short order unless we bring the environmental disaster under control.