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Plant hope, plant change
21.08.2023 - 11:58 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
The problem with elections, with votes of any kind, is that the process is inherently divisive. Whatever the result, there are winners and losers. The majority picks the direction we will take, for a little while, and everyone else just has to make the best of it. Given human nature, it seems like there’s a constant battle between tradition and progress. We’re all voting for a better world, we just disagree about what that means.
However, since we know that today’s children are likely to be the first generation less healthy than their parents, and that millennials will be the first generation less wealthy than their parents, it seems like we’re heading in the wrong direction. We seem to be stuck in a world where the atmospheric carbon level is permanently above 400ppm, and will need to take some drastic action to mitigate (not prevent) the effects of climate change. One in 10 UK wildlife species faces extinction, a pattern we’re seeing all across the world. I could go on, but I won’t.
We know why. It’s about money, and the people who have it trying to keep it for themselves, whilst convincing us the benefits will trickle down to the rest of us. A rising tide floats all boats, they say. And we buy it.
So if, this morning, you’re feeling down and wondering what on Earth you can do – stop buying it. Stop buying palm oil from plantations that are destroying rain forests and dooming the orang utan (among others). Stop replacing your mobile/cell phone every 5 minutes, because the minerals it needs are being mined in conflict zones. So are diamonds, but I suspect that’s not much of an issue for my readers
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