To ask what you're doing to 'save the Earth'

[mrsgrimbots]

My DS6 is a really sweet boy, hugely empathic, emotional, etc... and has had a bee in his bonnet about saving the Earth since his school had a non uniform day to raise money for the Australia fire relief.

He wants me to stop using the car and god forbid if I leave it running a second longer than needs be.

Today his last words to me as he went into school were....

'mum come up with a plan today of how we can save our world. We have to do something'

So of course, I'm putting it to the mumsnet community because I need ideas I can pass off as my own later you're always full of the best ideas ... what small or big actions/sacrifices/changes have you made to 'save the world'?

I would start with things he can do or consider giving up but without scaring them that all fun stuff is bad

1. don't buy things that come with free plastic toys whether comics or fast food but save to buy a better toy; some plastic toys like lego are good as virtually indestructible he can even keep them for his own kids buy second hand or look on ebay then sell when finished with, explain that some long term plastics are not bad it is single use ones

good quality toys and books can be reused by several children

1. not taking more food than he can eat and then leaving it but can always come back for seconds

1. wearing the same clothes two days running after school to avoid unnecessary laundry same with towels hang up to dry rather than leaving in a wet heap on floor to get smelly

1. using both sides of a piece of paper but not limiting doing creative stuff we don't want a child to scared to draw pictures because it is killing trees

1. not leaving his tablet / screens on standby

1. looking after his stuff and other peoples as if it doesn't get broken it won't need replaced,

1. not moaning about walking places and having to carry stuff (provided it truly isn't too heavy ) if you shop on the way home from school he can carry own school bag while you carry shopping

1. put stuff in right bins, maybe once a week take a small bag and litter pick on way home for 10-15 minutes

he is a child he should not be worrying about what he can't solve I remember a friend of mine's 5 year old thinking he had to build an ark like Noah as house was going to flood with global warming (like next week or the week after) and wanted all his toys upstairs to save them this type of scare mongering wee kids is harmful to them