Even though sustainability and climate change has been a hot topic for a while, it’s not so easy to answer this question. To make a long story short, to be more sustainable you everyday choices need to be more sustainable. But what does it mean exactly?
To be honest it depends on many factors. You need to take into account where do you live, what’s your health conditions, and what’s your social possibilities. In this article I will try to divide this topic into parts and share my point of view for the following.
Transportation
Let’s start with the “simple” one. By definition, making more sustainable choices means to choose solutions that do not harm our environment.
Nowadays it’s very easy to travel the world. You just need to pick the right flight for you and within a few hours you can be in the other part of the world. Everything comes with a price tough.
It is being reported, that commercial flights are responsible for 2-3% of annual CO2 pollution.
I won’t lie to you and will be transparent. I flight around 2 times a year. It helps me getting on my holiday a few times faster than by car or by train. When you book your flights in advance it’s also cheaper than other means of transport.
On the other hand, I try to compensate this in my everyday choices. My favorite mean of transport in the city is bike, second favorite – tram. Usually when I have to go to the other part of the city, I combine them both. There is nothing better to discover your city from the bike’s perspective.
There are some places on our planet where plane is the only option. It’s no brainer that people who lives there must have opportunity to move.
If you are still with me here, my main thought is that we should alway choose the greenest mean of transport possible.
Food
As a society we eat too much meat and dairy. This industry is responsible for over 30% of the annual, worldwide pollution. This is why we all need to change our habits.
Production of plant-based protein requires nearly 30 times less resources than production of animal-based proteins.
Even though this is a scientific fact, some people still won’t consider changing their diet habits. I know that it’s not an easy thing to do. Believe me, I’ve been there. But this status quo can only be changed by education and changes in the system.
If you really want to live more sustainable live than rethink your diet. Plant-based diet can be well balanced, also including the right amount of proteins. It can be also so delicious.
Fashion
We don’t always look at this side of fashion, but this industry is not a perfectly green one. A lot of clothes are thrown away on deserts because they were not sold. The scale of such processes is unfortunately increasing.
We live in a world where some basic clothes can be bought for a penny. For 10$ you can have a t-shirt, trousers, or even a dress. But have you ever wondered why is it so cheap? The simple answer is that costs for the given brand are drastically low. But how does it work exactly?
A lot of fashion products are products somewhere in Asia. Thanks to its’ cheap labor Asian countries attract new fashion investors. The sad truth is that people who manufacture these cheap cloths work in a horrible condition. At the top of this, they earn very little. Fortunately there more and more vegan fashion brands like our one providing you with VEGAN FASHION ACCESSORIES.
Another and inevitable part of this industry is transportation. You can buy products made in Bangladesh or China almost all around the world. Those products need to be delivered there somehow. This transportation process causes a lot of pollution.
But is there any better solution?
Fortunately, there are more and more slow fashion brands. They source only sustainable materials from reliable suppliers. They hire the best specialists and pay them fair wages. And last but not least, these brands produce products that last much longer, so you don’t have to buy more stuff than you really need.
It’s not easy to live sustainable these days. It’s much cheaper and faster to choose solutions that the easiest ones. But they are not always the best.
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