Climate-Change Quiz

Would throwing away less food make much of a difference?

CNN has posted this Climate-Change Quiz so you can check whether you know the actions that would help the most in slowing climate change. I can’t say I did perfectly - and I definitely learnt something.

It is based on information from Project Drawdown, a coalition of researchers, scientists, graduate students, PhDs, post-docs, policy makers, business leaders and activists who pull together the best information on climate solutions. They have a book out, and I’ve got it on my reading list, although I see that there is some criticism that they don’t address over-consumption. The quiz mentions better ways of shipping products as a solution, but it doesn’t say anything about buying less.

There does seem to be this assumption that we can’t change the way we live in some of the reading I have done. That we all need the new phone, the new look in fashion, the latest car - or that we can’t live in smaller houses or get by generally with less. Writing my book has been interesting, as I try to create a world where much of the excess has been taken forcibly away by nature, and see how we cope.