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Irene McGuinness's avatar

These are my words...

I enjoy reading your musings. So inciteful. One thing I need to ask on this topic is where does the public step in to do their part. We constantly shake fists at leadership asking them to implement change but each of us are also responsible to incite change in reducing global warming. I’m at an age where I have friends who hop on planes weekly to go somewhere. When I ask why, not to guilt them out. The response was, “Plane’s going there anyway. Might as well be on it.”

Two and three cars in the driveway. Traveling and driving and buying and shopping. Consumerism is an all time high (Thanks to HGTV and social media influencers). And FOMO brings them to all parts of the earth to tour places they see on TV. These human-caused wants massively contribute to climate change and global warning. Yet we all point fingers to our leaders to do something. I consider it a lost cause if we as individuals constantly need and want more. Private jets are on the increase. House sizes continue to expand while families shrink and/or divorce. (About 50% of marriages end in divorce in the US. 38% in Canada contributing to the need for more housing.) Government leaders can ‘fly’ wherever to meet up and sign any number of agreements under new regimes. But this will not make most of the population change their ways.

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