Tomorrow I will be joining the global climate strike to help spread awareness about the climate emergency we are facing.
It's the least I can do. Not just for myself but also for my 2 young kids. They are too young to fight for their future so I must do so for them.
But through Wild Homesteading I'm also trying to help others to work with nature, grow their own food, and build a natural life. These solutions are not enough on their own to solve the climate emergency but they are a step in the right direction.
Plus, these solutions promote human health and well-being in addition to supporting wildlife and nature in general.
On my own wild homesteading I'm restoring just under 3 acres to support local wildlife, grow food for myself and my family, and sequester carbon.
But there is more that I can do to.
I'm going to take on a new challenge to stop eating processed snacks. I have already given up soda pop (I call it coal juice to help me stay away from it) but I still eat other processed snacks. It is a bad habit that hurts the environment, contributes to the climate emergency, and hurts my health.
This is often how it goes--what helps the environment and addresses the climate emergency also promotes and improves human health and well-being. You can't support human life in the long run if you are destroying the planet.
Giving up processed snacks won't make a huge difference in the climate emergency. But it is something I can do now and that I have full control over. Plus, it will build on the other efforts I'm already taking such as growing some of my own food, biking to work when I can, and planting thousands of trees/shrubs every year.
So what are you doing to help address the climate emergency? Please share in the comments and please consider joining a climate strike tomorrow on September 20th 2019!
And thank you 