The Best Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint | Hot Mess 🌎

These are big, challenging changes to make - and not everyone has the option to say, get rid of their car or or afford a healthy plant-based diet. Every little bit counts though, so let us know how you are working to shrink your carbon footprint!

Honestly, being poor helps, I cycle everywhere, I turn off the lights constantly, use my own bag all the time and make sure to recycle.....but it's because I can save money! It's just nice that my way of living helps me reduce how I affect the climate 🌲🌱🌿☘️🍀🌳🌿🍀🌱

I don't drive, I don't take flights, I eat plant-based food and I don't have kids. Where's my medal???

Everything was spot on except you missed out one one of the big ones (if not the biggest) - shopping! Buying less, buying consciously, buying used and of course buying local is crucial!

Oh trust me I have been "staycationing" for years.

textile also creates a a lot of CO2, i recommend ted-ed's video on the life cycle of a shirt, changing your clothing habits can also be impactful

The extremely nonchalant delivery of "I can both vote and wear pants now" made me burst out laughing. Beautiful. :D

What about high speed electric trains instead of planes?

Contacting your political representatives and saying you want them to focus on stopping climate change (or, for some places, _get their heads out of their asses and stop denying the fact of it in the first place_), is something else you can do. Individuals are certainly important, but real change will also require government intervention, because no matter what people are told or even feel that they "should" do, a large percentage of them will always resort to what's most immediately beneficial to themselves.

Avoiding animal products isn't as difficult as it seems. It gets even easier when you learn about how heartbreaking animal agriculture practices are. I'd also recommend visiting farm sanctuaries to spend time with the types of animals we treat like commodities by the billions. Most people are already vegan at heart because most people oppose animal cruelty.

Great video! When talking about meat we also need to account for deforestation which really increases the emissions...

Actually according to a study by the Danish government, the creation of a plastic bag is so minuscule in energy usage and CO2 emissions when compared to the creation of a reusable cotton bag, you’d have to use that reusable bag approximately 7100 times for it to have a less of an impact on the planet than the plastic bag, and it’s highly unlikely you’d even go through half of that 7100 cycles before losing it or breaking it. Thank you Kurzgesagt.

Very well done HM! Thank you for this youtube channel - it is so very needed in today's hot mess world.

Good job on making those videos, great material to share on social media, kudos to the team 🙌

'If everyone does a little, we'll achieve only a little' - David MacKay

Thanks so much for including links to your references with each video, it greatly helps with research.

I've had no problem with doing any of these. It was quite simple and barely took any effort. Become disabled! Eventually you will be below poverty level, which forces you to weigh needs against wants. Having come out the other end to eventually having NO CREDIT and NO DEBT, I discovered FREEDOM and true happiness. What a shock to find money and materialistic happiness is not true happiness. It's short-lived and needs to be fed more and more. To me, it was a sickness of never-ending cycles of mass consumption and use of resources as if they were infinite. Having lived my life as poor AND middle class, I can honestly say I am far happier poor than when I had owned a home on Cape Cod, a new luxury car and had my daughter in private school. I learned it all owned me. All in all, it humbled me. Now the LOAD of POO is gone. It even made breaking my back a whole lot easier to deal with than the "American Dream" status quo nightmare I broke my back for in the first place, literally. I guess I could say breaking my back was the best thing to ever happen to me.

This girl looks so serious, and then, BAM! the solar panel pun. Great work

I have always considered myself to be a green guy. I mean, turning off the lights, using recyclable bags, using public transport more are the things I used to do, recently I even quit meat and fish. But, I didn't know, by not having a kid I was actually superseding all of my conscious efforts.

That computer screen was ancient by modern technology standards! Those mails were from back in 2000!