It is a very sobering watch especially the predictions at the end. Its common sense stuff really. We are overrunning the earth and gradually making it a worse place to live.
I've not always been the best of how I use resources but have been more mindful over the past 10 years or so - however its getting ever more challenging living a world that is continuously pushing new technology in our faces at seemingly ever shorter time cycles, making things obsolete by the nature of OS updates and incompatibility with older devices (mobile phone manufacturers looking at you mostly).
So I work in the tech arena and I am trying to be more mindful of how can have a more sustainable lifestyle:-
I bought a PC case and power supply and built a PC myself. When I upgrade I do so every five years or so. I keep and re-use as many bits as I can. I sometimes buy second hand components to upgrade my current system where I get what I need without buying new.
The next mobile phone I get will have a removable battery. Things that do frustrate me with phones is that these things cost as much - or if not more than most PCs these days yet I can still run Windows 10 on pretty much any machine with 4-8GB memory and a processor of over 5 years old. What is it with phones? Most models have 4GB of RAM and most 4 or 8 core processors. Run a mobile OS. Why cannot new versions of the OS run well enough on these? Why can't patching continue as long as say a mainstream Windows? It just seems crazy that after 2-3 years they effectively become useless because you can't change the battery or you can't run any apps (because your OS is out of date!) Sure there is a whole hardware business driving this but it shouldn't be forcing people to upgrade by making their phones effectively obsolete. Not really sure of the solution to this. Probably just get a battery for my old Nokia and ditch the "smartphone". All this is seemingly getting more of a problem as time goes on.
As far as other bits of my life - I have moved to an area that supports re-cycling - we have bins for re-cycling food waste, general re-cycling waste and finally general waste. I have never seen my general waste bin so empty!
Great to see. I also try not to get water in plastic bottles. The volume of single use plastic water bottles being thrown around our planet is scary - and the fact it ultimately ends up in our food chain.I try and source food from local stores - butchers and greengrocers. It not only has a lower carbon footprint it supports our local community.
I have a 13 year old car. When this beyond economic repair I will seek out a way of getting cost effective more sustainable transportation. Not sure what this will be yet - rental when needed, contract? looking at a usership model not ownership. Why are cars so expensive to hire? Or contract out? Hmmmm
I am trying to walk and cycle everywhere where possible. Not only better for my carbon footprint but my health too. The fact I'm working from home pretty much permanent is lowering my carbon footprint too as I hardly use the car.
Really on a day to day basis being more mindful about this and don't want to leave the place we live in a worse state for those that follow us.
Not sure what the solution is long term as we need to sustain ourselves - which means we need to earn money - which predominantly means we have to make stuff. Think its just being mindful in the end as to whether we *need* or *desire* things. Where is the balance?
Also there are just too many of us I guess which is the ultimate problem. We have no natural predators etc and we are living longer.
So lower the birth rate or? Not sure. Conspiracy theorists may have a point that COVID is man-made and a way of culling our population slowly.Anyway its an interesting watch.
