Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Dominic Templeman's avatar

I know exactly what you mean! I hear colleagues and friends saying they’re jetting off on another long-haul flight, and I bite my lip and keep quiet. In July, I even went off on a short flight myself (if you can’t beat ‘em, etc.), and then live with my own hypocrisy. Meanwhile, the Spanish floods

gnaw away at your consciousness and you harbour secret sympathies with climate protesters, which you never mention to anyone.

Want to be optimistic, but hard to be right now.

Expand full comment
Claudia Befu's avatar

I started to eat vegetarian food when I turned 19. For the first 10 years I felt exactly like you described. I was such an inconvenience to everyone. I never preached to anyone but my simple diet preferences triggered people. Then it gradually got better and in the past 6 years it became mainstream to be vegan. Suddenly, people forgot I was vegetarian when they became vegan. They wanted to feel morally superior. It will be the same with the climate. We just need to be patient. But this time, I won’t be silent while I’m waiting.

Expand full comment
3 more comments...

No posts