They are not alone!
The resources on the earth are becoming less and less, but people never stop consuming and producing more things. Fortunately, there’s a group of people who have realized the pressure on earth, and are taking actions towards it.
——this is a video from youtube, which is about the life of freegans and an introduction to freeganism.
I interviewed two people on Tuesday for my radio feature assignment, and I learned a lot from them.
Polly Higgins is an International lawyer and an environmentalist. She was recently invited to Copenhagen climate conference to draft the Copenhagen treaty. Although the meeting was a “disaster”, she said she’s happy to see so many people uniting together and are fighting against pollutions.
With Polly Higgins
”We elected the leaders to do it for us, but they failed to do so, so we have to depend on each other and do it on our own now.”
Polly is really a friendly and kind peoson, and she is very very busy because she’s now preparing for the COP16. I really appreciate her meeting out with me.
She told me that her pc screensaver says “Save the earth”, so that every morning she wakes up, she would feel full of energy and that she still has jobs to do.
I admire her spirit.
The other interviewee is a freegan. This is a group of people who are against over-consumption and over-production. They try to live simply and reduce the pressure they place on the environment.
What they committed to do surprised me a lot. I didn’t know that there is such a group of people, who do the dumpster-diving and bin-raiding things almost everyday. They want to save the declining resources as best as they can, and share the food that are wasted with others.
When I asked him whether his family approve of his way of living, he turned very sober.
“Well, some do, some don’t,” he said, “there are some minor details…”
Alan Wright, a freegan
He thinks he is going down the right road, no matter what others say, he just hopes to follow his conscience. He says that’s the benefits he got from this organization, and the feeling of self-satisfaction is what he’s after.
This is really an adorable old man. To us, dumpster diving and bin-raiding may seem odd, but they insisted doing so and are calling for more people to act towards the waste.
The commonalities between my two interviewees is that they are all concerned about our planet, and are promoting actively to the environmental issues.
I’m glad to see they are not alone since more and more people have realized the problem, the climate protest in early December last year is a good example. Of course, protecting the earth is not only their responsibilities. We really cannot expect too much from our leaders, what we should do is to depend on ourselves and help each other.
True, so long as we follow our conscience, the world will turn into a much better place.
Tags: climate protest, Copenhagen climate conference, Copenhagen treaty, December, freegan, London, the COP16
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