#6 – Short sleeve in Antarctica
Weekly newsletter – 16 february 2020
Featured news
- If no one does anything, this won’t stop: Antarctic base records hottest temperature ever
- Have you ever seen one? Fireflies threatened globally, with light pollution a glaring problem
- How do you feel about this? The EU Wants to Tax Meat for the Climate
- Could Brexit be good after all? Plastics tax, carbon-trading cash to cover EU’s Brexit gap, officials say
- Greenpeace just published a great analysis on air pollution: TOXIC AIR: THE PRICE OF FOSSIL FUELS
Eco-tip of the week
This is probably the best advice you’ll ever read from us.
Buy local products!!
By doing so you are already contributing enormously to the fight in the climate war, by buying local products instead of others from far away you:
- Benefit the local economy. Which also benefits your national economy. Next time you complain about not finding a job, think about where the products you buy come from.
- Contribute enormously to reducing the emission of polluting gases. The transport of goods internationally is one of the main causes of global pollution.
- Fight rural depopulation. Helping rural producers, who are key to the conservation of the natural environment in these areas.
- Reduce waste. A large proportion of food is spoiled before it reaches the consumer because of the chain of intermediaries. Consuming local products greatly reduces the middlemen and waste.
- Reduce packaging. The need for packaging and packaging material increases if products have to travel over long distances before being consumed.
Quote of the week
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
Jane Goodall – Zoologist