Over the last 10 years I fundamentally changed my view about climate, climate change and what I have to do with it.
Before this time I was a solid bystander. I was able to contribute in discussions but in essence it was something that had not much to do with me or my life. I actually did not understand a lot about it, but given my talking skills, I was always able to talk me “around” it. And when I had been in the real defense, I just doubted the facts and claimed that the change is simply not true. Just another “normal” cycle of global earth climate. And there had been good company out there…many supporters the way I argued.
Then I started to recognise that something is changing in reality – and not for the better.
Simple things, like the weather.
Then more things, like
how food is growing in which regions and times
how food tastes and where it is coming from in my local grocery store
how animals can or can not survive in their natural environment
how micro plastic appeared all over the world – literally everywhere
how ocean levels increased – really and with consequences for humans living close to the oceans
…
Hence, I was starting to learn and educate myself. At the beginning quite slow and with hesitation. Like not using plastic bags anymore. Or not buying my shower gel in plastic every week. Really small things – kind of no-brainers. But over the last 10 years they added up and made a difference. Just a small one, but a big one for my little life and cosmos.
While doing that, you get to know more and more people who are doing similar things or additional things (things you can copy/paste :)). And when you then add up all these individual things from all these people, you recognise that your contribution has something to do with climate. And has an impact. And is changing things.
The more people understand and start doing something in their environment about the climate, CO2 will decline with a faster and consistent rate – which is good for our planet and our health.
So everybody has something to do with it. It is not about that you do everything at once – its about starting and continuing. Do it.
