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Anonymous
MY environmental contribution will be to not have more than 2 kids. I haven't eaten vegatables directly since I was about 2 and a half years old. I eat vegetables through things like potato chips and such but this is simply a taste/texture concern: I cannot palate vegetables, whether this is psychologicl or not (I am also a supertaster, ie more tastebuds at the front). I eat plain meat (usually cow) for every night-time meal, along with plain rice, pasta or bread. I'm 27 now and have no (known) health problems. I am just under my optimal weight for my height and practise gymnastics. I do not take any supplements. Will I live long? who knows haha. I give to WSPA every month, and in general find animals and nature to be THE single most fascinating thing in the universe. If i was alone starving on a desert island I don't know if I could bring myself to kill anything to eat it, but circumstances may change that feeling at the time. I don't squash bugs, I put them, outside, and ask others to do the same if I am there. I will go out of my way to move them off footpaths or what have you. I semi-recycle, there is a paper and plastic plastic bin at work, and we sort them at home too, but I am not vigilant. I am able walk to work every day, if its raining i take electric bus (easy in the town i am from luckily). Plus I dont' have a licence anyway. I dont use heating in winter, I wear more blankets/clothes. I don't time my showers. I don't mind the dark.
I live in NZ, so we are lucky to have really good locally "grown" meat, and probably veges and fruit.
So basically most of what I do to not harm the environment is simply side-effects from living my life in a pleasurable way. I despair for the environmental state, and what we are doing to populations of animals, but I don't seem to be able to turn that despair into a positive motivation. I know there are a lot of people like me, and I hope we can sort it out.
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