One of the big hurdles preventing climate action is a lack of awareness of how much impact each individual action really has on the overall climate picture. A particularly promising solution here is that of putting “climate labels” on each packaged item (food, clothing, furniture etc).
They would work essentially like the “nutrition facts label” found on all packaged food items, except that instead of providing fundamental info about the nutrition content of the product, it would succinctly tell us about the climate impacts of that product.
Here's how I think one might be able to convert this broad concept into a reality.
This would be particularly useful because now we no longer need to trust advertising from big corporations – we can just look at the labels and decide for ourselves whether they are climate friendly enough for our needs.
There’s considerable amount of work on this already in various scientific journals, online videos and online articles; so if you do start, you should probably research very deeply first!
An influence who goes by the name of FoodPharmer inspired me to always check the nutrition facts labels before I consume packaged products. Now that I do that, my lifestyle has simply become so much healthier. If similarly, I could easily know what the climate consequences of my choices were, I would be able to make much better choices.
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