Category: climate leadership
How Can You Become A Better Consumer?
You don’t always have to buy clothes. You can receive clothes as gifts, through recycling or just find clothes outdoors, in nature; earlier this year, I found a pair of sports shorts outdoors, which still had a price tag on them. Today, I found a pair of Regatta ́s Pack It black outdoor trousers, perfectly suitable. Now I ́ll just wash them and use them.
I have also found sunglasses, cycling glasses, torches and cash (money) outdoors this year. Is there something our environment wants to tell me by sending me all these free gifts?
At least it is highly recommended to keep both your eyes and your other senses open while outdoors, as you never know what you will encounter or find.
Recycling is no longer a trend, but a necessity for all human beings.
Our Earth can no longer take human greed and a desire for overconsumption of poor-quality goods. The global garment industry is one of the worst environmental polluters beside agriculture and fossil fuels.
Therefore, it is highly recommended to consider what kinds of textiles to use, and whether you always have to buy first hand instead of buying second hand clothes. Or, does one ́s closet have to be full of unnecessary clothes when one can live with less than? There is nothing worse than people buying poor-quality clothes and textiles, especially when most of these dust in the closet and go unused. Or, when textiles are being thrown away instead of being recycled.
For instance H&M has for a long time already been recycling textiles and clothes, and it is possible to recycle usable clothes e.g. through UFF unless one wants to try to sell them second hand.
What Kind of a Consumer Are You?
Happy UN Day – Hyvää YK:n päivää
Climate March Helsinki October 2018
More than 8.000 climate change activists and tens of NGO´s including Greenpeace Finland, Unicef and many others participated in Helsinki climate march on October 20th 2018, demanding the government of Finland to take action with regard to climate change. Despite of being a sparsely populated country, Finland and finnish citizens are among the most polluting (per capita) on a global scale.
Käyttäkää järkeä, Use common sense
Ilmasto on tärkeä. Climate is important
Nyt on pakko toimia, We must take action NOW
Ilmasto ei odota. Climate does not wait
Pallomme on ainoa, We have only this one Earth
sitä ei voi korvata. It is irreplaceable
Jo riittää spedeily, Enough of stupidity
päästöt alas heti nyt. Down with emissions
Nyt riittää jauhanta, Stop the nonsense
vaadimme ilmastotoimia. We demand climate action
Nyt on aika tajuta, It is about time to realize
ilmasto ei odota. Climate does not wait
Meillä on voimia, We are powerful
pallo tarvii toimia. The Earth needs climate action
Loppu soiden tuholle Stop damaging peatlands
tai pallo menee pilalle. or the Earth will sour
Ilmastomarssi, ilmastolakko. Climate march, climate strike
Seis tämä farssi, nyt on pakko. End this farce before it is too late.
#Ilmastomarssi #climatemarch
#climatemarchhelsinki2018
Will You Participate in Helsinki Climate March Tomorrow?
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Global Climate Change Think & Act Tank
What Makes Someone A Climate Change Skeptic?
As a reminder to all climate change skeptics:
Please keep in mind that when discussing climate change today, we refer to anthropogenic climate change for instance through a number of different emissions, much of which end up in our water bodies around the world increasing water acidity, into our forests that are important sources of absorbing emissions and toxins, and everywhere else in our environment. At least nine million people worldwide die each year due to environmental toxins.
Moreover, wastewater management worldwide is at a very poor level. Most of all wastewater worldwide ends up back in nature without any kind of treatment. Wastewater treatment in a country like Finland is a worldwide exception.
All water bodies worldwide becoming toxic or drying out are examples of how human beings destroy the global environment in addition to the fact that all toxins and emissions are destroying our home planet and causing climate change. Do you want to eat food that has been intoxicated or grown on sick soils?
These are just a couple of examples of how the behavior and inconsideration of human beings causes climate change and the average temperature of planet Earth to rise to an unbearable level.
If you need/want further examples, please get in touch with me.
I witnessed personally how whole water bodies dried out this summer, left with no water at all after the dry period. Finland will not be spared from climate change any more or less than any other country. Despite our many lakes and fresh water bodies, freshwater scarcity is already a reality which will affect all citizens worldwide. No one on this planet will be spared.
The time to act is now. We have no other option than to take better care of our water bodies and our environment, both in Finland and elsewhere in the world.
Observing and noting environmental problems is of course difficult if one is completely estranged from nature and used to living in an urban jungle without ever having seen a blue sky or a green forest during one’s lifetime.
Or, if one is so used to a polluted environment; how can one distinguish between a healthy and sick environment? Majority of human beings seem to belong to the latter group; with an inability to distinguish between what is healthy and what is sick. It is a skill that has to be practiced. Furthermore, environmental toxins are invisible to the human eye.
It is worthwhile to become familiar with nature and the environment, which is our natural living space and reflect deeply upon what is currently taking place in our surrounding world
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