Earth Day got here and went. By now, you should have been bombarded by content material on sustainability from influencers, manufacturers, activists & newspapers, and even perhaps your folks.
Since you have already got sufficient motion factors on sustainable residing from all of the content material makers & educators, right here’s my two pennies’ value 💡:
- Environmental justice efforts received’t be significant except there may be patriarchy & racial injustice. Girls, transgenders, and racialized, ethnicized & indigenous individuals all over the world expertise not solely the consequences of environmental harm but additionally the intersecting oppressions & violence inside their contexts. In a patriarchal world, local weather change merely magnifies the present inequalities inside our society. The time has come to guard each individuals and the planet. 🧚🏽♀🌍 Be the change……… if we don’t communicate up towards these injustices (or are blind to them) we develop into a part of the issue.
- April has been hijacked by firms trumpeting their exaggerated commitments to sustainability. By now you should have seen manufacturers bombarding you with their Earth Day and Earth Month particular “acutely aware collections”. Seeing this wind of optimistic change is superb. Nonetheless, there’s been a “company hijacking” of Earth Day in some sense. So, STAY VIGILANT 👀. Earth Day or not, greenwashing is extra rampant than ever earlier than. When a model is trumpeting its sustainability claims, ask questions & don’t simply take their phrase for it: what efforts your favourite model has taken to wash up its mess? Is sustainability a part of their DNA or only a “promoting level” to look good in shoppers’ eyes?
- Earth Day wasn’t about shopping for “new” sustainable merchandise or fueling consumption. In reality, sustainability is method past consumption. 💁♀ Be a “acutely aware citizen” not only a acutely aware client. Let’s make a tangible distinction by creating consciousness, educating & taking small or huge actions for fixing the local weather change downside. In any case, mom earth deserves our love.
- Clear up your Instagram feed. Sufficient of influencers on feed who gas consumerism with vogue hauls, senseless consumption and life. Add optimistic game-changers who’re studying, inspiring + taking actual actions for making a greener future. ❤️ Help them. Interact with them.
- Do not forget Earth Day is Each Day 😇🌱
✨ P.S. Carrying hand-loomed natural cotton co-ord set (cloth from Girls Weave & custom-made), Tonipons vegan sneakers & Stella McCartney vegan bag.
