Episode 32
Giving a F*ck
About Climate Change
This episode comes to you live from the Climate Strike in Vancouver. Debbie is joined by marching buddies Jessica Roberts-Farina and Peggy Liu as well as over 100,000 others from Vancouver as they strike and march for Climate Action.
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HOST & GUESTS
Host: Debbie Roche
Co-Hosts: Jessica Roberts-Farina
Peggy Liu
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About Our Guests
About Peggy:
Peggy Liu is a writer, story-teller, self-proclaimed bibliophile, and mediocre advice-giver. When she isn’t digging her way to the bottom of a peanut butter jar or walking around Vancouver with her camera, she’s analyzing and over-analyzing relationship dynamics, cognitive and behavioural patterns, as well as her life choices. She recently completed her undergrad in English Literature at UBC, where she was a mental health columnist for the student newspaper, The Ubyssey. You can find her Mind Your Mind articles on The Ubyssey blog. She’s currently working on her first book, to be finished when she can stop overthinking her ideas!
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Episode 32 Show Notes
Resources:
The Vancouver Climate Strike was organized by Sustainabiliteens Vancouver and Climate Strike Canada. This strike, along with others that took place around the world were in response to Greta Thunberg’s call to action.
Sixteen children from across the world are petitioning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to hold five of the world’s leading economic powers accountable for inaction on the climate crisis. #ChildrenVsClimateCrisis Find out more: www.childrenvsclimatecrisis.org.
What can you do?
In this episode Jess, Peggy and I discuss small actions that we can personally take to reduce our carbon footprint and plastic consumption. Here are some of our suggestions:
- Reduce meat consumption;
- Shop at clothing swaps (also known as swishing parties);
- Become part of a community kitchen. Here is a link to resources from the City of Vancouver’s website;
- Reduce your use of plastics by switching to reusable containers, water bottles, mugs, steel straws, beeswax wraps, etc.
- Where possible, take transit, bike or walk instead of driving;
- Speak to your bank regarding your investments. Where are your dollars going? What are they funding? Consider switching to a Credit Union or Bank that invests in green energy and environmental initiatives.
Check out these 10 steps you can take to help fight climate change by the David Suzuki Foundation.
What steps do you take? Feel free to share them in the comments below!
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