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LONG READ EXPLAINER: Why should the UK get to Net Zero? Won’t it cost us too much? What is the benefit? [15 minutes]
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(TLDR – skip to two FREE Conversation Guides – two help you talk about Net Zero with your friends and family.) 1. What’s the benefit of Net Zero? “I can’t see how Net Zero is possible or beneficial to us.” I have been thinking a LOT about how to respond to this statement a friend made to me a couple of months ago. (And this question has freshly hit the headlines again in the UK with Kemi Badenoch’s recent speech.) I made several (failed) starts to gather my thoughts into something coherent, until I realised that...
Spring Update: Eco Learn, Eco Hope, Eco Act
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Since the start of Contented Earth, my mantra has been: Eco Learn, Eco Hope, Eco Act. I want to help people learn more about environmental and climate issues, not despair, but feel hopeful, but also understand that we can only create hope through our actions. And underpinning those three 'columns' has been my desire to create a community of people who feels supported and inspired to take climate and environmental action. Find out more about what's on offer...👇 Eco Learn Eco Learn. Sign up today and each week you will receive an email with a link to a short video, podcast or article...
Sometimes I wish I could give up.
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Dear friends, family and followers, Sometimes I wish I could just give up. And I bet you wish I would too sometimes… ;-) Give up going on and on (and on) about the climate crisis. Stop banging on about taking climate action. Quit posting things on social media that make my friends feel anxious, overwhelmed, panicked, uncomfortable, stressed. I know I seem always happy, always confident, always positive, but there is part of me that is simply desperate to give up. To just stop. To walk away. To no longer feel the despair, the...
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