By Angela Busheska
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In life, we all know that it is the small things that count. Imagine that beautiful sunny day, out with people who you love, eating your favorite meal with some great conversation that makes you laugh till you cry, accompanied by the sound of the chirping birds in the background. It turns out that we didn’t have to invest a fortune to be happy.
But why, why when it comes to saving CO2 emissions, we pretend that it is so difficult that we need to re-invent the wheel to be more eco-friendly?
To find the answer to this question MUN Impact Global Summit 2.0 gave me a chance to take an amazing audience on a journey where each one took the chance to be transformed into the climate hero Planet Earth deserves to have.
We started this journey in Skopje, the capital city of my country, and the city with the highest air pollution. As always we started to find the reasons, but then instead of blaming the government, we asked ourselves, what we have done to stop it? And it turned out that we weren’t much better.
Realizing that it is never too late to change and challenge the status quo, we made a breakdown of the minor daily activities that are harmful to our environment, and thus, on the other side easy to change. Have you ever thought of doing grocery shopping on the way back home, instead of making an additional trip? Or have you ever thought that the elections are not the only way to vote, but you are doing that every single day while buying clothes and giving power to one or another company to protect or pollute our environment?
Asking and researching these thought-provoking questions, we realized that per day, each person can save around 10 kg CO2 and 1000 people can make carbon offset for one Skopje-Vienna Flight. And that is how we introduced the EnRoute application and movement, to harness the small daily activities to make a great change.
The hours I spent and the connections I made on the MUN Impact Summit were priceless. I am so glad that we have finished the session with great smiles, and confidence to be the heroes that Planet Earth deserves to have.
The full recorded session of this workshop can be accessed here.