Choice is an individual decision and a powerful tool for change. The materials that people use come from the environment and are returned to the environment at a lower state of value. We can choose to buy products that last and can be recycled when eventually they do wear out. 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.