To think that people are waking up?

[1980Gal]

Something has changed in me. I can't stop thinking about how everything I do affects the environment. Is it just me or have others experienced a real shift in thinking and feeling? Yes there are loads of people who have already been especially conscious of these things, and I'm sure most of us do the obvious like recycling where possible, but this feels different. DH feels the same, like something has 'clicked'. Last week he said he's only going to eat red meat once a month due to environmental impact - very out of character. I keep thinking of Greta T travelling for days/weeks by boat when a flight would have got her there in hours. Are others feeling the same? Do you think something might be happening nationally to people's mindsets? Is there now more hope than ever that we might just not f**k up the world?

I am, I think. Much less meat (and if it wasn't for DH I'd happily be vegetarian). Much more awareness of small changes I can make. But then I go to a supermarket or takeaway and see the scale of the waste, and I don't think it makes any difference really. The idea that an unnecessary piece of plastic packaging on, say, a pack of apples gets discarded immediately and will stay in landfill until my 5x grandchildren are alive - it makes me shudder. Or when I think about how much I still waste/consume even when being careful.

You must be very young not to remember all the previous waves of environmentalism

When was the last one?

I am afraid I am a bit of a sceptic sorry.

As in climate change isn't a thing?