Until we want to go for a drive, fly somewhere on vacation, or eat out so we don’t eat leftovers at home.
It’s a tough mental exercise if you’re being honest with yourself. This is mainly because we, as individuals, can all play a bigger part in having an impact on the environment.
There is a natural tendency to blame others and insist they, or government, do things to make it all better. However, for the most part, the government will only ask us to do what we can do ourselves.
For example, we all could have used woven carrier bags for years now. That would have eliminated the manufacture, use and disposal of billions of plastic carrier bags. But not many did that. So the government, in the familial position of parent, made a law and imposed a cost on carrier bags to reduce their use.
Now, do that with driving cars (for work, pleasure, getting kids to school or activities), plastic packaged food items, and plane journeys – for business or pleasure. Stop doing any of these things. Could you? Would you? Will you? From today? You know it would be better on the environment, yet you do not change your ways.
And no, we can’t use an electric vehicle as a defence. Why? Because the impact of making these new cars is still there and what do you think they do to make the electricity.
So one mustn’t be too hard on people that don’t talk the talk, when nearly everyone doesn’t walk the walk.