{"id":53269,"date":"2020-05-14T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53269"},"modified":"2020-05-14T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:52:00","slug":"what-does-covid-19-mean-for-sustainable-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53269","title":{"rendered":"What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cusp.ac.uk\/themes\/s1\/blog-im-sustainable-consumption-covid19\/\">What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our priorities shift when the wolf is at the door, Iona Murphy writes about the impact of the current crisis. It\u2019s quite understandable that people may not have the headspace for sustainability right now. Nonetheless, we\u2019re currently on a hiatus from consumerism\u2014will it last?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.cusp.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/im-consumption-blog-image.jpg?fit=1000%2C554&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>CC.0 :: John Cameron\/Unsplash.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in the beginning of March, which feels like a lifetime ago, there were signs that the British public might be living more sustainably.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcresearch.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/394519-RED-C-Consumer-Sustainability-Monitor-FINAL-22042020.pdf\">1 in 5 people who fly abroad, commute by car or eat meat were planning to cut back<\/a>, and expected reductions for clothing and plastic packaging were even higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To state the obvious, a lot has changed since then\u2014many of us won\u2019t be driving to work anytime soon, and holidays abroad are off the cards. Our priorities shift when the wolf is at the door, and it is quite understandable that people may not have the headspace for sustainability right now.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/zero-waste-living-sustainability-during-coronavirus\">Even the zero-waste influencers buy plastic in a pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there\u2019s reason to think we might act differently when once the dust has settled.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18364364\">We are most likely to change our behaviours during a major life event<\/a>, like moving house or having a child; COVID-19 imposes such an event on everyone. Change is not always unwelcome;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffcc.co.uk\/impact-covid-19\">\u00a0polling for the UK Food, Farming and Countryside Commission<\/a>\u00a0found that 6 in 10 adults want to make changes in their life once this is over, whereas only 33% want their life to go back to how it was before. That means almost twice as many adults want change, than don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption? Our priorities shift when the wolf is at the door, Iona Murphy writes about the impact of the current crisis. It\u2019s quite understandable that people may not have the headspace for sustainability right now. Nonetheless, we\u2019re currently on a hiatus from consumerism\u2014will it last? 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