I showed in my previous articles how we are ruining the planet and why is it really important to take action now!
Here are the best things you can do to save the planet:
1- GO VEGAN
Yes I know, if you have never been vegan this can look impossible or really hard to do but if you look at the meat and dairy industry you will see that it is one of the worst thing for the planet so at least please try to eat less meat and milk and try to be vegan like 3 days a week or something.
2- STOP USING PLASTIC
I know, just like the first one, it is nearly impossible to completely stop using plastic. What you can do instead for example is:
Stop using plastic straws and plastic toothbrush (you should try bamboo, it will last for a lot longer)
Stop buying plastic water bottles, instead bring your own bottle and fill it up. You will also save money like that.
Bring a reusable shopping bag with you
More than 1 million bags are used across the globe every day and annually, about 500 billion plastic bags are produced. Whether you are going grocery shopping at the supermarket or going on a shopping spree at the mall, bring your own bag with you. Most reusable bags are only about 99 cents - a small investment to help out our planet.
Avoid snacks/food with excess packaging
We're all guilty of this. You buy a huge plastic bag filled with even smaller plastic bags of snack-size chips. Think of all the unnecessary packing that goes into the food on the shelf. Also, some supermarkets will wrap each fruit or vegetable individually in plastic wrap. Instead of throwing it away, leave the plastic wrap with your grocer so that they can reuse it for other products.
Stop using plastic cutlery
When you get a take-out order, you will automatically be given a set of plastic cutlery. Before you take your food, make sure to ask for no plastic fork, spoon, or knife. Chances are if you are taking the food home, you have silverware readily available and do not need to waste the plastic cutlery. If you are taking your food to-go and bringing it back to work, keep a cheaper set of silverware at work that you can wash off and use over and over again. This also guarantees that you will never be utensil-less for another lunch again!
Why Veganism would save the world
Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.
Meanwhile, if everyone stopped eating these foods, they found that global farmland use could be reduced by 75 per cent, an area equivalent to the size of the US, China, Australia and the EU combined.
Not only would this result in a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions, it would also free up wild land lost to agriculture, one of the primary causes for mass wildlife extinction.
The findings reveal that meat and dairy production is responsible for 60 per cent of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions, while the products themselves providing just 18 per cent of calories and 37 per cent of protein levels around the world.
Researchers examined a total of 40 agricultural products in the study, covering 90 per cent of all food that is eaten.
NOW STOP WAITING AND TAKE ACTION! I created a gogetfunding page and all the money that I will get will be donated to theoceancleanup foundation and I will also give 80% of the money I make with this article to the same charity!
Here is the gogetfunding link for the ocean cleanup: https://gogetfunding.com/the-ocean-cleanup/
