NO PLANET B
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Show our planet
By Lucy Grace
Turn off your lights, use a blanket instead of turning on the heater, limit your shower time and your water usage, turn off your appliances when they’re not needed, car share, adjust your diet if you can, ditch the dryer, take public transport, ride a bike, walk! There's lots of things we can all do to care for the planet we live on and right now is the best time to start.
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ith mainstream media spouting a continuous stream of statistics and environmental revelations at us, it’s no avoidable fact that we humans are giving our home planet a pretty rough time. Whilst this last century has birthed many useful inventions now commonplace in households throughout the world, there are a few things that perhaps aren’t as harmless as they seem. It can be hard to accept that the conveniences we rely on in our daily lives can be so detrimental, especially when many only cross our hands for a moment before going in the bin – out of sight, out of mind. But here we are, contributing to widespread pollution of the oceans and land, unprecedented rates of wildlife and species decline (scientists estimate up to 200 species of animals and plants become extinct every day) and not to mention extreme deforestation - 46% of the planet’s forests 22
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have been felled according to the National Geographic. As our world population continues to rise at an incomprehensible rate, along with our consumption and waste, it seems that now is the time for a bit of a reality check. As I cover this topic for you, I ponder how, somewhere along the line, we have become a separate entity from nature. Nature is outside, right? The trees down the lane, the grass by the parks, the birds, the flowers popping up for Spring. Perhaps, beyond the issues that have stemmed from our species, the problem lies in this very perspective. We forget that we are also living, breathing elements of nature, just like any other species - made up of the very same stuff and existing in the very same place. Since we are a magazine for women, let’s see this new decade as an opportunity to pursue the ultimate act of feminism – nurturing our Mother Earth!
