bitful

A friend of mine who works for WWF yesterday sent me a link to the WWF Footprint Calculator. Turns out I am not so kind to Old Mother Nature after all. Here's the reply I sent my friend:

Thanks for the link to the footprint calculator. Another 3.09 planets [my test result] for me I'm afraid. Not particularly shocked, I knew travel was bad.

The thing is, I do more than your average guy to keep an eye on the environment: energy-saving light bulbs; UK cox apples instead of USA pink ladies; and recycle everything that can be recycled, even if our kitchen looks like a dump. I switch off lights, re-use things, avoid buying unnecessary junk, take regular trips to charity shops to give/buy stuff.

I'm the kind of person who carries three Tesco 'bags for life' in my backpack every day and always says no to carrier bags. I take home plastic bottles from work because we haven't got a recycling bin there! I'm not boasting or feeling particularly virtuous, I just think it would be stupid not to do so.

And still, it apparently is just a drop in the ocean. Very motivating :-/

Lx

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