Dag 28 - Sammanställning

Hej!

En förskjuten sabbat, och därmed gigantiska utsläpp. Vi arrangerade en Vårfest på skolan, och jag har jobbat och fixat konstant sedan kl 13 idag. Inga möjligheter i världen att göra min egen mat eller kunna avstå från plast eller papper.

Dagens Svårighet: Att blunda för all den energi, alla de förpackningar och slängd mat som finns i ett storkök. Aj. 

Dagens Utsläpp: Jag lade på 5 kg extra eftersom jag inte haft en enda aning om alla de utsläpp som dagens breda ost orsakat.
Elektricitet: 9,58 kWh
Vatten: 130 liter
Mat: 7,72 kg CO2-ekvivalenter (växthusgaser omräknade i koldioxid)
Övrigt: 5 kg
Sammanlagda utsläpp av CO2-ekvivalenter: 13,58 kg

"Not even the most hardcore environmentalist", Hans Rosling Says

The other day I watched this video from a speech given by swedish statistician Hans Rosling. I've had a debate about the content of this video with teachers in school, so I actually had to watch it.

Hans Rosling claims that the washmachine made people's lives so much easier so that they could make time to read for their children, for example. From what I've learned it works the other way. The amount of time spent on washing laundry is as much 2012 as it was 1930 when washing machines were not very common. Today, we simply wash more, and more often than we did before. In the end, laundry still takes its fair share of time in our lives. In Science this is called The Rebound Effect about which you might read here (Swedish) & here (English).

Fun fact was when he gave a lecture to his environmental-students, who all claimed to be very aware etc. Some of them said they never used cars - but none of them, not even one of the most hardcore environmentalists, said they didn't use a washing machine.

So, Here I am, Hans Rosling.

I'm a hardcore environmentalist. I wash my laundry by hand. And the amount of time I use is about the same as if I'd use a washing machine.