It's surprising I just found this week's prompt a few days after I and @erikah had a short chat about the ecosystem getting worse and how the effort is needed from everyone in the world while an individual's effort is important as much as the world's effort. Finding this topic didn't give me much thoughts to enter for it as I had did some researches after my chats with her.
Indeed, each individual has a role to play for our ecosystem to become better even though it seem like things just get from worse to worst everyday. I won't go deep into what every individual has got to do to help our beloved ecosystem because the main focus for this week's prompt is "The Minimalist and how they could help the environment"
From my knowledge of living as a minimalist, they are just the perfect set of individuals to save our planet. Imagine having the whole world practice Minimalism, it's definitely going to be a great change to our ecosystem for the better.
How could Minimalism possibly save our planet, you asked?
A few major problems our ecosystem is facing are pollution, overpopulation in some places, burning fossils, deforestation and many other factors. While Minimalism practices can't eradicate all the problems, it could help to a great extent in reducing these problems if many would take it into consideration.
A true minimalist would be mindful of their ecosystem by doing a family planning or be very conscious how many kids they will bring to the world (the world is over populated as it is already). Even as this isn't the case for some, it's a good way minimalism practices could help. Having a control over the population will reduce the number of people polluting the world and putting a stain to our ecosystem.
What's the use of reducing the population increase of the world if the already birthed individuals are polluting and burning fossil fuels as they feel like?
It isn't healthy for the ecosystem and so this is where the minimalism practices also come in to help out... Less buys, less wastes (works all the times) how?
Are you like my dad who buys stuffs simply because they look beautiful and not because he has any need of it at that time? Truth is, it happens a lot especially to spendthrifts and this isn't helping the ecosystem as they end up as wastes, getting burned as some aren't given the chance to be recycled.
A true minimalist buys only what he/she need and consider the home spaces so they don't inconvenient themselves with too much items at home. In some cases, minimalists gives out items they don't need to people who would need them. They get to clear up space in their homes and also help someone out with something they might need... That way, the ecosystem is saved as it didn't get one more waste dump on it.
A true minimalist would be very conscious with the consumables, be extra mindful of what ends up in the waste bin. This goes up to meals preparation being measured to get finished and having left overs well kept (freeze or warmed up for later). I do have an aunt who's so good with this practice, I've seen her do it like everyday. We almost never throw food away because it finishes and everyone is well fed, I still wonder how she's able to get the right quantity of meal to prepare hehe.
Going for quality rather than quantity is a practice of true minimalists and I think this will help to a great extent in saving our ecosystem. Quality things hardly go bad like my mum who is always lucky with electronic items she buys and they last for years without much issues. Go for the quality of what is very much needed and not the quantity or the price of it (of course, quality stuffs are mostly expensive so deal with it for our ecosystem).
There are so many other ways minimalists could help save the world and I'll wish that more people research about them and be a part of saving our planet... It's more of an individual efforts than a world's effort, be a minimalist and save our planet!
This is my entry to the Kiss blogging ideas challenge and I'd like to invite @hopestylist and of course @erikah if she'd be interested to share her thoughts on this... Thanks for the opportunity.
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