My 5: Miriam Kashia, Peace Corps Volunteer
January 13, 2009 by
Julia Wasson
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Miriam Kashia, Peace Corps Volunteer, Namibia
Blue Planet Green Living asked former Peace Corps volunteer Miriam Kashia, “What are the five most important things we can do to save the planet?”
KASHIA:
- Make changes that reflect your increasing knowledge and concern, and tell people what you are doing to inspire others.
- Join and support some of the excellent environmental activist organizations (NRDC, Sierra Club, a local group, etc.).
- Stop waiting for “someone else” to take care of the problem (the government, big business, environmental groups, “Tree Huggers,” and so on).
- Simplify, simplify, simplify. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restore.
- Be ready to make so called “sacrifices” to save the planet. This means me and you. We may discover that sacrificing complexity and excess has intrinsic rewards.
Miriam Kashia, Peace Corps Volunteer (2005–2008)
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[...] There is an article in the morning paper quoting top climate researchers from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warning that we are now very near the CO2 level that will cause irreversible climate change. This will result in all the much publicized effects of great drought in some areas, flooding in others, the growth of deserts, increasingly devastating storm systems, melting ice caps and rising oceans, a proliferation of new viruses and diseases, and a major regional shift of those plants and animals that survive. How do you evaluate the return on investment on that? Some things need to be done just because they are the right things to do. This is not just the right thing to do; it’s a sacred crusade. Everything is at stake. Miriam Kashia [...]
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