The way people use their bodies is reflected in the illnesses that they get. Similarly the way people use or abuse the environment is reflected in the health of the environment. People have as much power to heal the earth as to harm it. Everything that people do influences the environment in either a positive or negative way. In their homes, gardens, cars, shops, places of work or leisure their everyday actions either help protect the environment or contribute towards its destruction.
People are the solution or the problem.
When people change the way they live, often in very small ways, they influence the world in really profound ways. Individuals replacing negative habits with positive ones are part of a global movement with significant effects on the environment. In the process of change people not only help the environment but also improve the quality of their own lives. Ordinary people all over the world through their actions are making a difference. The revolutions of today are not violent overthrows of the state but consumer boycotts and simple changes in personal behaviour.