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Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch

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Notes on Progress is a new diary-style format from Works in Progress. In this issue, Hannah Ritchie writes about how counterintuitive it can be to be an effective environmentalist. If you enjoy it, please share it on social media or by forwarding it to anyone you think might find it interesting. My charts might be plastered across posters about the environment, but I’ll never be a poster girl for environmental action. Watching me make a meal looks like an environmental travesty. I almost exclusively use the microwave. I don’t take time to savour the process: a meal that takes longer than ten minutes is one that’s not worth having. It nearly always comes from a packet. My avocados are shipped over from Mexico, and bananas transported from Angola. It’s rare that my food is produced locally. Or if it is, I don’t check the label enough to notice. This is the opposite of what seems sustainable. The image we have in our head of the ‘environmentally-friendly meal’ is one that’s sourced from t

Notes on Progress An environmentalist gets lunch Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one Works in Progress Sep 05, 2022 369 2 11 Share Notes on Progress is a new diary-style format from Works in Progress. In this issue, Hannah Ritchie writes about how counterintuitive it can be to be an effective environmentalist . If you enjoy it, please share it on social media or by forwarding it to anyone you think might find it interesting. My charts might be plastered across posters about the environment, but I’ll never be a poster girl for environmental action. Watchi

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