Recently I have been reading a lot on climate change. If we don't start making a difference, our children may see the end of civilisation as we know it with floods, famine, and earthquakes. Heck, we are seeing it already everywhere.

Some days I feel it is fruitless, all this recycling and self-imposed curb on consumption. Look, I asked a few friends the other day, and they haven't even thought about it and made some rhetorics and mumbles about yeah, it is important.

Truthfully, no one cares. The supermarket own bag campaign seems to be useless. I have seen less than 10 people bring their own bags in the weeks since it started. Cashiers automatically bag our stuff and look amused when I give them my own bags. One told me 1 out of 10 bring their own bags.

What about cutting our electricity use? By habit I had already started switching off appliances from the walls to save money years ago. Yet I can't even convince my nearest and dearest to do so in their own homes to save the world for the next gen. Is it really so inconvenient? I secretly do so at their homes and get a telling-off for making it so.

So if individuals don't care, it is up to the governments to step in and make it mandatory. The Ikea model works great. Charge people who want to use plastic bags. But didn't the governments just sign some lip-service treaty which still excludes the US, Australia, and China - three of the worst offenders? Does that mean the governments don't care too?

I may be dead by the time the climate really goes to hell. But Jack won't be. And I want him to live well and happy, and preferably in a civilisation. We sure aren't going to make it to space to save humankind, so what is a Mom to do? Build my own ark or maybe buy my log cabin in the middle of nowhere and teach Jack to hunt and fish.

Still I try. I recycle. I buy less and in bulk. I eat organic as much as I can afford. I bring my own bags when I shop. I use as little electricity as possible. Will it make a difference? I don't know. Things might come around. Who knows, you might try to live a green lifestyle after reading this article and together we might change the world.

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