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Consumption should be the new smoking
Reframing Consumption: Confronting Our Addiction for the Sake of the Planet and Future Generations
Louise Rapaud
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Commemorating the 27th COP
Addressing climate change projects us into the future; looking back at climate mitigation highlights our inaction. Focusing on the future buys us more time to consume while we deliberate on the best course of action; knowing the past goads us into finally taking the action that was deemed necessary 40 years.
Louise Rapaud
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An interesting idea, but…
Let’s talk through our concerns about our individual impact in order to find answers instead of using them as an excuse to do nothing.
Louise Rapaud
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Voting green for more than a day
There’s no time left for armchair environmentalism. Voting for a green party has to be followed up by voting for transformative climate mitigation measures, even when these affect our lifestyles and back pockets. Governments cannot act if we don’t let them.
Louise Rapaud
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Duty of care for the anthrocopene
We plan constantly for our children's futures. Yet we are failing to safeguard the very cornerstone of their future – the environment they will inherit and inhabit.
Louise Rapaud
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A Ministry for now
We are living the climate modelling of the last 5 decades. An apology demands that we lean into this reality and confront ourselves with the costs to our loved one of our consumption and voting choices in order to trigger change. When enough of us take these steps, our individual drops become waves pounding on the shore.
Louise Rapaud
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A restorative justice perspective
Intergenerational climate injustice is increasingly being championed by young people as a legal issue. Disturbed by government inaction on climate change, they are taking their governments to court over climate injustice, and winning. Such drastic steps to protect their future has, unfortunately, become essential. However, framing intergenerational climate injustice solely within a legal framework limits the stakeholders and the scope for change.
Louise Rapaud
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My personal apology
I shock myself when I face the reality that only in the last few years have I taken steps to reduce my footprint, and only then at the initiative of my teenager. And yet I have always known about the science and kept abreast of the latest news of climate change. This gap between my knowledge and my daily actions takes my breath away – but somehow the serious implications and hypocrisy of my inaction has always got lost in the busyness of daily life and the relentless pull of our social and economic model towards the next thing – the next job, trip, course, child, holiday, home, holiday, car, clothes, experience …..
Louise Rapaud
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Recognising
Young people are justifiably anxious about their future lives in a changed climate. Recognising this anxiety positions climate change within our own homes, spurring us to take up our responsibility to protect our young by reducing our consumption and voting for transformative climate mitigation measures.
Louise Rapaud