Buy local. Shop sustainably. Go straight to the growers. Give back. Seek out mindful makers. Remember your reusables. But at the same time – pay your ever-increasing rent or multiplying mortgage. Feed your family while grocery bills are skyroc-keting. Keep your car on the road with soaring petrol costs. Do all of this with less time and less money, while also fighting for climate justice. Stressed yet? Yep, me too.
With the cost-of-living crisis dominating our thoughts (and bank balances), that “climate change dropped three places in the overall ranking, being replaced by issues that many might feel have more immediate and personal impacts: access to healthcare; unemployment and job security; and poverty, hunger and homelessness in my country”.
