Public awareness of climate change is creating a change in lifestyle
As public awareness of climate change grows, more people are making changes to their lifestyle to at least try to save the planet. Although the effects are limited when viewed at an individual level, when taken as a whole, the cumulative results are much greater. Little things like people drying their clothes in the old fashioned way on a washing line rather than using a tumble dryer can make a huge impact on electricity use. An average tumble dryer creates 1.5kg of CO2. Taken over a year this figure is far from negligible, taken across the country the figure is pretty significant.
Using a washing line creates no CO2. Asda have reportedly sold 1.2 million clothes pegs between January and April of this year, an increase of 1,400% on the same period last year, and ales of clothes lines and rotary dryers is up by 147%. So, it becomes obvious that every little change we make to reduce our carbon footprint is worth doing, no matter how small it may seem to us as an individual, because as a society if we all make these small changes, we can make a big difference to our future.
wonder if you in Oz have ever considered building polar cities for survival year 2500 or so? google POLAR CITIES or wiki the term search POLAR CITIES, or see my blog at climatechange3000.blogspot.com
and email me pro or con
there is a method to me madness BTW
danny
Posted by: | July 15, 2007 3:07 AM