The Lesson
Lesson three was a positive look at where we can take steps to reducing the impact we have on the planet. Our key focues is onvreducing our unnesessarily vast consumption of animal products and thinking about where to buy our pet food. Lesson 4 will look more at food waste.
Issues
Some of the issues I was told by people in our facebook group usually lesson involved vocabulary. When it comes to climate change awareness there is an awful lot of complex vocabualry We'll talk about how weare going to be tackling that issue later in this post.
The biggest problem we had with this lesson was just how much there is we can do to help the planet by modifying the way we eat. From the dairy industry to the transport of strawberries. The issues run so deep it was hard to find a key focus for the lesson. In season two we are going to focus more on how things are done and take a much closer look at the topic of our carbon foodprint.
Don't tell me what to eat
One of the big problem we've found with the subject of food is people's unwillingness to listen. If someone buys something covered in unnecessary plastic plastic and you tell them it's bad for the planet. they'll listen. They may even think twice the next time they're at the supermarket. If doesn't cook with lids and you point out they can save electricity, they won't get angry. They may even end up thanking you. But if you tell someone that what they're eating is bad for the planet then they have a tendency to feel attacked.
It's especially a problem amonst teens and kids because they're not the ones who buy and make the food. It's their parents you're going to irrate. I'm sure every parent has felt how infuritating it can be when a child doesn't eat. So alianating parents is also a huge issue when teaching food's enormous carbon footprint.
Trying to find the balance between preachy and raising awareness is very tricky. Despite my own opinions, an all guns blazing approach to to teaching the negative effects of an animal based diet is never going to work. Making small and gradual changes is absoultely vital and not attacking yourself if you do slip up and gentry reminding others what they could also do.
Coming up
As we mentioned earlier we've releasing some "
vocab shorts" five to seven minute videos explaining the
key words coming up in the next lesson.
Speaking about our next lesson, it's a special subject lesson. In these lessons we are going to interview an expert and talk to them about their passion. In Wendesday's lesson we talk to Amy from @honeyhousebarcelona. She tells us some facts about bees, how to help save them and all about delicious honey.
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The Lesson
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