I was never a deliberately environmentally conscious person. Whatever attitudes I had towards recycling, and whatever patterns I factored into my behaviour as it relates to caring for the environment were more like habits I was taught to have.
Storing old plastic containers and bags to reuse seemed more to me like a natural thing to do and it was mostly attributed to saving, in the financial sense. Being environmentally conscious is expensive and at times difficult. It is something that takes a special effort and calls for a lot of attention to detail.
With the Global Climate Strike taking place every Friday, and the Extinction Rebellion gaining constant media attention, I feel overwhelmed, guilty and helpless. It’s easy to think that you are not doing enough when you see that Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate change activist, sailed to America from Plymouth in a boat to cut her carbon footprint.
