Does This Woman Have the Tiniest Carbon Footprint in Europe?
Joan Pick hasn’t driven a car since 1973 and has only been in a car twice since then. She hasn’t flown on an airplane since 1971.
She eats only raw food, thus using no energy for cooking, and she runs everywhere. She uses electricity only for a single low-energy light and her kettle, which Pick heats water for tea and the laundry she does by hand. Pick also takes bucket baths. She doesn’t heat her home. Pick lives this way because:
I realised we have got the energy question totally wrong. I decided to imagine that the earth was a business in need of sound management. We are all members of the board, a shareholder, a trustee, a consumer and an employee. We believed that fossil fuels were infinite, but they are finite….They have to almost bribe people to use energy-efficient things. It’s terrible. I adopt a [lifestyle] that is consistent with the sustainable management of the world’s resources. Everyone knows we have to have very severe cutbacks to meet that standard.
Via: The Guardian
Image: Frank Baron
She looks pretty fit. I wonder how old she is? That is a great model for the low-carbon lifestyle! Which country in Europe? I wonder how hard it is to not heat her home.
Wow, what an amazingly idiotic person.
Like one person, reducing his or her lifestyle to poverty-esque fashion, would help at all on a global scale.
She needs to be slapped.
She probably smells awful too.
Now here is a proud earthling to emulate. It is not the smallness of the action, but rather the kindness of the philosophy which carries the message.
Had we the temerity to discipline our spending of resources, the rest of the world would not suffer for our excess. One can only manage one’s own backyard, one by one…
My own conscientious efforts pale in comparison, i did live in such conditions in France and also in the American deserts, and must admit it was rewarding by the very connection to each and every action, and relation to nourishment. a grounded life, spiritual and satisfying, room for living and thinking…
I agree that this woman has gone pretty far (and probably does smell awful - LOL) but I also agree with nadine sellers that “it is not the smallness of the action, but rather the kindness of the philosophy which carries the message”.
If “several one-persons” or as nadine says “one by one” did things in such a big (small) way imagine the savings. It reminds me of the post about reusing things like plastic bags and coffee cups at the coffee shop. Those things are small but seem to take off.
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