Wasting Climate Influence Is As Bad As Wasting Food
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Climate Influence Rocket Booster | Podcast host (Living Change ) | Bloomberg Green Champion 2024 | Speaker/Interviewer for hire | #JoyAsAnActOfResistance #SDG11 #Bikes4Climate #Cities | KEXP is my JOY!
We’ve all read the stats - how food waste contributes hugely to climate change. In fact, we probably avert our eyes, because we do not like feeling convicted.?Ugh. No matter how hard I try, I know I am wasting food. But, like a lot else, once you dial it in, you see how figuring out a plan, and just looking at your meal making strategies a wee’ bit more closely gets you engaged. Once you start, you keep nudging yourself to try a few new things.?Maybe composting. Maybe more batch cooking. Who knows?
To wit: I came across a way to make banana peel into plant fertilizer on Instagram. It makes me feel so good to get that extra use before I compost it!?
In the same way - you knew this was coming, right? - we are all guilty of massive climate influence waste. ?
No matter how “small” your network or platform, you do hold a key to influencing your friends, neighbors AND, most importantly, your professional networks. If there were a way to calculate the wasted moments, the perfectly-positioned conversations or the ways you could drop a phrase into a speaking gig or other public moment, we’d all be horrified at how our own waste adds up.?
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Experienced Nonprofit Sector Editor, Writer & Trainer; Climate Podcaster; Award-Winning Author
1 年Yes, every bit helps. All hands on deck. But some of us hold more sway than others, or are using resources way more than others. Let's move from 'sacrifice' to a vision of abundance and richness as a species.
Director, Power Markets
1 年Your heart is in the right place here. But what I find hard to grapple with is that the Chief Nudge always seems directed at the working class and the middle class ("the masses" so to speak). There are billionaires landing their helicopters on their yachts, but the working people are told they can't have plastic straws, or a hamburger, or a gas stove, or take that coach-class flight across the country. If you're just nudging people to lower their quality of life, that's not going to win over many people in the long run - in fact it could make things worse. Improving quality of life, sustainable living and fighting climate change are not mutually exclusive. EVs will achieve widespread adoption not because the masses have been scolded into sacrificing transportation quality to save the planet, but because EVs are superior products to ICE vehicles. Likewise, wind and solar run on infinitely free fuel, and hold the promise for massive electrification at low prices that will power humanity's next technological revolution. The real solution to our climate problems lies in providing the people with a vision of progress and abundance, not shortage, and technological solutions to achieve those goals.
Founder / Creator / Catalyzer at Earth Gives
1 年Chief Nudge - I like it. We all must be. Right now we're nudging nonprofits to sign up for Earth Gives Day over the last many days registration is open. Then we'll be nudging all of you to invest in their work. Because the point of the collaborative and community is greater than any one donation, and one volunteer hour. It's about shifting our focus so we might not have to nudge anymore. We just are. Thank you Andrea. You get me thinking all the time.