HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
Should we believe what we see on television and read in the newspapers – that the whole world is going green?
Companies boast about being carbon neutral and sometimes even carbon positive. Sustainability-driven activities are seeing a record number of people getting involved, including the Final Straw Foundation’s beach clean-ups (finalstrawfoundation.org), which have seen volunteer numbers grow by 146 percent over the past four years.
Longer-term lifestyle changes are also on the increase, with over 629,000 people having pledged to go vegan in January 2022, with 24 percent of that group being motivated by global health. We, on the whole, are doing good things.
The UK is ranked 17th in the UN’s Sustainability Development Report,
