Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal.
Today I'd like to share a tweet by Barack Obama, " We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it."
For myself, when I had turned 30, something had clicked in me. Something had changed. I had this moral uprising that I felt like I had to do something more. Something to do with the environment, I felt responsible.
We always see advertising things about reduce plastic and reduce waste and it's always been at the back of my mind but I never had really consciously done anything about it.
When that shifted in me I just decided, ok I'm more than just myself. I have small businesses that I run, that I can help make an impact. So I further began to reduce plastic use, waste. Started to think about ways how to work with the community to reduce it even further. And then I came across the net zero by 2050 initiative. Where countries are signing on to reduce greenhouse gases by 2050, because if we don't we're in big trouble. The thing is though the time pressure is even more. There are milestones that we need to hit by 2030, 2040 before 2050 is even considered and so it seems to be a race.
I feel by educating ourselves and people around us, is at least the first step but then as a community, we need to collectively figure out ways we can further reduce emissions and the impacts of global warming. This is not just for ourselves, but for our future generations.
I hope that you will consider what kind of impact we can all do and I wanted to leave it out there that if you have any ideas and initiatives that you're working on in reducing greenhouse emissions, please let me know. Reach out and I hope to collaborate.
Thank you all for listening.
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