The first generation who knows and the last who can act
Aris Chatzinikolaou |
TEDxLarissa
• September 2021
Advice for a more environmentally conscious life:
Can you live without these 12 things? Stop buying, start living, and change 12 habits (in Greek): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_mtY08RpVwWjEzV0RQeUhVTkk/view?resourcekey=0-UN2o1cSgXmWrX6buLa7VTg
The ice is melting, 40 things we can do every day to help our environment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz_mtY08RpVwMEpuZ19EZVotcDA/view?resourcekey=0-3JzD1lxXf_Bc-zaLqw3XeQ
450 citizens in 2012 with “we control our own food” as their slogan, set up the non-profit community consumer cooperative ‘Βίος Coop’:
https://www.bioscoopeshop.gr/
Sources:
One in four children is undernourished: https://data.unicef.org/resources/global-nutrition-report-2020/
The richer 1% pollutes twice as much than the poorer 50%: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-percent-more-double-emissions-poorest-half-humanity
7% reduction in greenhouse gases in 2020, due to Covid:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210312-covid-19-paused-climate-emissions-but-theyre-rising-again
Measure your environmental footprint by doing one of these 3 tests:
footprint.wwf.org.uk/
www.footprintcalculator.org/
www.carbonfootprint.com/
France abolishes internal flight itineraries which are already covered by its rail network:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/world/europe/france-climate-law.html
2,500 litres of water are needed to produce a single burger: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/this-is-how-much-water-is-in-your-burger/
It is estimated that 80% of deforestation globally is directly or indirectly linked to animal husbandry:
[Memorandum issued by the Greek office of Greenpeace for the Committee for the Environment in the Greek Parliament, Thursday 5 September 2019, Athens]
https://bit.ly/3w6nOqv
Among European countries, Greece has the greatest per capita food waste (and 3rd in the world), with an impressive 142 kilos per person per year: UNEP Food Waste Index, Report 2021
I wish to thank Giorgos Melissourgos and Anthi Kamaterou for revising and upgrading my Power Point presentation.
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