By Heidi Wachter
Zero-waste advocate Lauren Singer is helping people lighten their environmental footprint — one container at a time.
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A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development. Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future.
Knowing how environmental issues affect different groups of marginalized people in unique and often overlapping ways can help us build a more sustainable and equitable world.
Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation”—that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change.
Taking care of nature means taking care of people, and taking care of people means taking care of nature.
Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.