What actions could you (in theory) undertake that would improve the 'sustainability' of your lifestyle? What might be preventing you from doing these?
Personally I think my life is fairly sustainable. I try to live fairly healthily, eating right (as right as you can with a student loan) and I try to do as much exercise as possible. I am aware that as I get older and as my student loan goes it’s going to be harder and harder to live in the way that I have become accustomed to, at that point it will become harder to live in the same way, and therefore my life will become less and less sustainable.
The way in which I live in accordance with the outside world and how I contribute to global warming probably isn’t sustainable, here in Northampton, I don’t drive but back in Exeter I do and probably unnecessarily which doesn’t help the environment much. I think the average human has the same concerns about the environment and the damage we are doing to the earth and that the social conscience dictates that most people want to do something to reduce the effect of human impact on the environment, but people are generally uninformed on how and more importantly WHY and WHAT effect that one change in a lifestyle can have on the earth. I, like most people, don’t mind doing something to help, but I also like to see something coming out of the end of it.
In order to help the world I could probably do ‘the little things’, like buying bags for life or taking the bus, walking & cycling, buying fair-trade etc... But something inside me makes me not do it. It could be my teenage (I’m still just about a teenager) belief that I’m just not going to die and so helping the world isn’t one of my top priorities at the moment. But that will change, it will HAVE to.
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