I’ve kinda believed what I’ve been fed: small changes everyone can make will add up, recycling and technology will do the rest. But I think problems are more fundamental; we’re used to having so much stuff and food and things and services.
I would grow our own veg, but am mostly limited by time and our expectation of availability.
I read that Scottish widows was set up to ensure church ministers wives would have a reasonable life should their husbands pass away before them. This is what insurance should be about: providing a safety net. But now it’s an industry and customers who shout the loudest get the best deal and companies entice you with offers. Those who don’t shout or switch feel fleeced. Couldn’t a computer program work out the statically necessary quote and do away with all the rest? Get these people doing something useful instead?
Shops with rafts of mostly plastic kids toys, others full pet gimmicks. It all seems so useless and futile.
I have hundreds of trees to plant, but no time to do it without taking time off work which I can’t afford either.
Garden centres full plants: is it wrong to suggest we go back to the ‘Dug for Victory’ (or no dig if preferred?)
All these sad obese people, every day knowing they should try to eat less and better but tempted beyond control and using more resources, spending their money. The poor soil, mental health, the oceans...
...I’m feeling so despondent about it now. I overheard to two women talking yesterday, they felt the same. Story after story, both gone vegan; pollution from feedlots in America, Teflon, the oceans, plastic, whales, overpopulation... One was almost crying and I knew there was nothing I could add.