How to Be a Guilty Environmentalist
Center for Resource Solutions Blog
Becoming an environmentally conscientious person is a slippery slope of guilt and anxiety: each time I have taken a step towards trimming my carbon footprint I find that it never seems to be enough. When turning off lights and recycling cans was no longer enough I switched to vegetarianism, and once there I next had to start worrying about how much I fly. Now I am ashamed even just thinking about my food miles and water footprint, and I feel a pang of guilt every time I buy exotic fruit. And for each minor victory I am faced with the prospect of just how much more I could be doing, and just how staggeringly small my positive contribution is. A central issue that we seem to struggle with in the fight against climate change is the divide between personal and system-wide causation and responsibility...
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Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) is a national nonprofit with global impact. CRS brings forth expert responses to climate change issues, with particular expertise in the interaction between cap-and-trade programs and the voluntary market for renewable energy. Its leadership through collaboration and environmental innovation builds policies and consumer-protection mechanisms in renewable energy, greenhouse gas reductions, and energy efficiency that foster healthy and sustained growth in national and international markets. For more information about its programs, including Green-e, visit www.resource-solutions.org and www.green-e.org.
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