One year zero impact: the experience of Colin Beavan
Everybody talks about the environmental crisis. The effects arising from depletion and disasters we inflict daily ecosystem changes seen horribly before our eyes. Watch what you do not want to see, however, is too hard, so we continue to make the mistake of believing that complaining is enough to make the shot more virtuous. Let us persevere in keeping down the curtain that protects us from our guilt, but not from the devastating effects of our behavior. We insist in pointing as nobody is doing enough to save us from disaster that we keep ourselves day after day ad incrementare, ma non andiamo oltre la parola. Evitiamo semplicemente di assumerci le nostre responsabilità per continuare a cullarci nel nostro immobilismo.
Un anno a impatto zer o è un libro che alza il sipario, che ci mostra la vita in tutta la sua feroce contraddittorietà, e che può aiutarci a salvare, prima che l' ambiente, noi stessi.
"Con la spazzatura tutta raccolta e nascosta nei sacchi neri, mi resi conto che c'era un motivo se non volevo vederla (...) ecco perché i sacchi per l' immondizia non sono di plastica trasparente (...) succede perché, se dovessimo guardare la nostra spazzatura ogni giorno, dovremmo face difficult questions about the way in which we live. "
So begins the adventure of Colin Beavan, an analysis of all waste in one day that he and his family were able to produce. Slag that we generate are a sign that we leave our presence on this planet. They are what remains of our long lived. So sack after sack, the author examines not only the differences, but his entire lifestyle.
The question is What can trigger the reaction, brutal but necessary, that gives us the strength to open the bag and look inside?
Colin Beavan is not an environmental engineer nor an expert on ecology or something like that, a writer of history books. Then one day in mid-January, leaving his apartment in New York, sees in all T-shirt and shorts and start thinking.
A temperature of 22 ° C in winter puzzles and anyone who wants time to stop and think and decide to stop Colin Beavan: "in that summer day in the middle of winter, I seemed to have hit rock bottom" . Decides not to wait for someone to solve the environmental problem for him, but to experience firsthand what it can mean efforts to reduce environmental impact. Indeed, not reduce it enough, you have to reset it. It 's so that for a year will pursue a project in which the progressive elimination of all that is not environmentally sustainable. From food to take away the electricity from the machine toilet paper.
What is surprising is how the author leads his experiment to continue to live in the Big Apple engulfing his wife Michelle, obsessed with TV and shopping, Isabelle, the daughter of one year with even a diaper and the dog Frankie. Because that's the challenge: to live in an environmentally sustainable wherever you are and your loved ones without going crazy.
The history of this progressive reduction seems to be a list of denial and deprivation: no television, no shopping, no coffee, no taxis, no elevator .... and instead the reader discovers and rediscovered by the author as to eliminate certain aspects of our lives does not mean asceticism but more movement, more health, more savings and free time to cultivate true human passions and relationships. Eliminate what it could mean free. A courageous
experience that teaches how to persevere in consumerism is detrimental to the environmental consequences in a not too distant future, but most regain the lost contact with nature can be really rewarding in terms of welfare. "Wasting less, means less waste our lives" .
One year zero impact is the story of an experiment bold, maddening, extreme but that is not only a provocation, is a story of life that compels the reader to ponder. The author-protagonist is an ordinary citizen, could be me or you, too, anyone willing to recalibrate his daily life on parameters to compel compliance with the ecosystem.
"Needless to research the causes of environmental disaster around us, if they are in us."
We can not expect that the aggregate foreign exchange system because the system is us.
Danila Bruno
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