TL;DR: Stop thrifting so much and join a local organization to really help with climate change.
Trautmann was among young leaders gathered at the recent One Young World summit in Manchester, UK, for four days of panels and brainstorming about activism, kicked off with a speech by Meghan Markle. BuzzFeed News asked five Gen Z climate activists at the summit about what got them involved in political action and what we can do to help mitigate the effects of climate change in our own daily lives.
“I do think shopping secondhand is helpful. But in general, there isn’t enough messaging around not shopping. There’s just not enough people saying we need to stop consuming so much. Because even when you shop secondhand and support somewhere like Goodwill, if something at Goodwill doesn’t sell in four weeks, it gets shipped to another country where it’s then going to pollute that area. Yes, secondhand is better than shopping from a fast fashion brand.
“My biggest highlight has been a campaign that led to the complete phasing out of single-use plastics in Fiji by 2020. The government also implemented a 20 cents levy on each single-use plastic, just to discourage consumers from using single-use plastics and to encourage behavior change. “The climate crisis is a systemic issue, it’s not come about because we’ve been using too many plastic straws. It’s come about because of organizations, and corporations, that haven’t been taxed and haven’t been elected and have — on the backs of people of color, poor communities, and the global South — continued to just pollute, pollute, pollute, pollute and have never been held accountable.
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