How To Save the Planet (And Still Use a Plastic Straw)
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Caleb tries to be good to the planet by recycling, biking to work and living a minimalist lifestyle in his small Ohio town. But he still feels guilty about using disposable diapers and buying a minivan for his growing family. How can he fight climate change without driving himself crazy? In this episode of How To!, Emma Marris, an environmental writer and author of Rambunctious Garden, warns us not to fall into the trap of individual guilt. In other words, don't feel too bad about using that plastic straw. Emma says that plays into the hands of the fossil fuel industry. Instead, reallocate your time and energy toward collective action that works to make large-scale systems more eco-friendly.
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| 0:30.1 | What if we lived in a world where all the disposable diapers you could buy on the shelves |
| 0:35.4 | were compostable and there was a service that |
| 0:39.2 | came and picked them all up and composted them for you. And that was the cheapest way to do it. |
| 0:44.0 | Why don't we just demand that instead of torturing ourselves individually? |
| 0:50.1 | This is how to. I'm Charles Dewey. This week marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, which actually seems kind of appropriate, |
| 1:00.0 | because while the pandemic is taking this devastating toll on human lives and the economy, |
| 1:05.0 | there's been at least one kind of silver lining. |
| 1:09.0 | In the past few weeks, the Earth has gotten a bit of a break from our usual output of carbon |
| 1:13.6 | emissions and pollution. |
| 1:15.6 | You might have seen those photos from Los Angeles of pristine blue skies where usually |
| 1:19.5 | there's just smog. |
| 1:20.9 | Or northern India, where for the first time in decades, people can actually see the |
| 1:24.9 | snow-capped peaks of the Himalayan mountains more than 100 miles away. |
| 1:29.1 | Our listener this week, he would appreciate that. |
| 1:32.5 | My wife and I, we go hiking all the time. |
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