whole philosophy here on this channel if you're not already subscribed and you don't already know the spiel i'm about to get make sure you hit the subscribe button but basically the way i label my lifestyle is eco minimalism purchasing a lot less so that i have a smaller impact on the planet or i should say caveat buying a lot less new secondhand items don't have the same impact on the planet as purchasing new things all the time does but one of the mistakes i see people make when they embark on a sustainable living journey and i think one of the reasons that sustainable living gets a bad rep for being expensive is because people think that they can continue the same habits but just replace them with things that are labeled eco-friendly and don't get me wrong sustainable items are typically more expensive than conventionally made things because they're not taking the same shortcuts that unsustainable things do they're not exploiting people and the planet which comes at a cheaper cost than doing things the right way however i think if you're coming to this lifestyle and just thinking about switching what you're buying and not how or how much you're buying it's definitely not the best approach and i would personally say one of the biggest mistakes that you can make when embarking on trying to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle looking at sustainable living from one angle or sustainability overall or things like climate change overall with one perspective and not taking an intersectional approach to it is definitely a mistake i've seen a lot throughout the years not only is environmentalism really intersectional because of the impacts it has on low-income people different people of socio-economic status as well as people of color it's very much a mistake in pointing fingers at certain people and blaming them for the problems that really have nothing to do with them and really stem from systemic issues at the top i think especially in its infancy the zero waste movement specifically focused way too much on a very narrow scope of what environmentalism was and somehow became the face of what being an environmentalist means when in reality i think that was a complete detriment to the way that we police each other these days and embarking on an eco-friendly lifestyle with that tunnel vision can lead down the road to very dangerous ideologies and not making progress so make sure that as you embark on a sustainable journey you're looking at all different perspectives and not only hyper focusing on one thing getting trapped in the aesthetics this is for sure one of the mistakes i see made most often and i think a lot of times it's because of the people who are talking about these things and the brands who are spending money to get in front of you when your search starts to change to eco-friendly things they promote a certain aesthetic they do i've seen criticism online recently that all like sustainability content creators homes look the same we seem to be terrified of color and pattern and i can't lie i i kind of am i wouldn't say it's necessarily only for creative purposes like only so that when you're looking at my content i look like an earth goddess of sorts personally for me i have anxiety i have anxiety disorder and so the less patterns and colors in my day truly truly help me and i think that maybe a lot of us who are a combination of environmentalists or sustainably focused people as well as content creators we probably likely have a lot of the similar
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