Tilting

In our enthusiasm for modifying our behaviour, we often go for All Or Nothing. However, I believe that TILTING is more realistic. Like when I gave up eating meat for 17 years, I still used leather ...so I tilted in the direction of lowering my dependency on domestic animals. Now we are (hopefully) beginning to embrace our carbon footprints. But I can't help using long-hall flights, a car and a trillion other things that are really not going to help the planet. I do recycle, and have done so since collecting milk bottle tops for Blue Peter in the '60s. I do turn things off more, choose less carbon nasty goods and so on. So what I am consciously doing is tilting towards being carbon neutral.

Now if everyone of us in the industrialised world did one small energy-saving thing each day, then the result could equal the output of one power station in a year. So if we all started tilting a bit in the same direction, the collective result would be good, and hopefully the titling gets stronger.

So my motto is: "Less Guilt, just Tilt."