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Just caught up on #ExtinctionTheFacts 
. Easy to get depressed with the dire state of the natural world, but it was also full of solutions & ended with hope. 
It's easy to feel helpless as individuals, but as consumers & voters we have more power than we would think.
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. Easy to get depressed with the dire state of the natural world, but it was also full of solutions & ended with hope. It's easy to feel helpless as individuals, but as consumers & voters we have more power than we would think.
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If we think of every pound we spend as a vote for a certain way of life 
, our spending power can drive the system, positively or negatively. It's important to educate ourselves on the products we buy - find out where they come from & their effect on the planet 
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, our spending power can drive the system, positively or negatively. It's important to educate ourselves on the products we buy - find out where they come from & their effect on the planet . 2/6
Everything we eat, everything we buy, everything we waste.
Everything has a cost beyond the price tag. Endless consumerism is pushing our planet to its absolute limit.
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Everything has a cost beyond the price tag. Endless consumerism is pushing our planet to its absolute limit.
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Eat local, eat seasonal.
Waste less - food, clothes, the lot.
Buy less - do you REALLY need that snazzy new top hat?
Travel sustainably.
Question societal pressures that tell us we need to buy, buy, buy!
Vote like your life depends on it 4/6
Buy WELL. Every sector has companies to choose that use your £s for good. @patagonia give 1% of sales to the environment, @Ecosia use ad sales to plant trees, @BrewDog is carbon negative, our own charity @ScotlandTBP uses revenue from ecotours to fund #rewilding projects. 5/6
I certainly have some changes in my life to make.
Time to crack on!
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Time to crack on!
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