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<br /> <br />Consumption: <br />What do you find the most challenging in curtailing your consumption? <br />Food <br />• Many types of food are part of culture and tradition; it will be challenging to <br />reduce meat and dairy consumption in particular. <br />• Lack of access to land is a challenge. By providing more community gardens <br />there would be less consumption of meat and dairy because people would be <br />able to grow their own food. <br />Other Topics <br />• Health Care consumption is needed and it is difficult to reduce your demand. <br />• Educational programs reminding people that while electronics and other devices <br />are necessary, you do not always need the latest “thing”. <br />• More education regarding the greenhouse gas impact of online shopping vs <br />traditional in store shopping. <br />How does it make you feel when you are told to reduce consumption? <br />• Carbon emissions due to consumption is a corporate responsibility, not personal. <br />Corporations should take actions which will limit the need for individuals to take <br />action. <br />• Low income people are already constrained in their consumption; upper income <br />people are the real problem. <br />• People want to eat healthier and local, but the cost is prohibitive. <br />• People feel frightened when they hear they need to reduce their consumption; <br />there are essentials for daily lives. People need education about the relationship <br />between consumption and emissions <br />• People feel under resourced and cannot do more without support—doing all they <br />can to reduce consumption, they need help. <br />• There are other critical issues so reducing consumption is not the highest <br />priority. <br />• People feel hopeful because individuals can make a difference—there are <br />possibilities. <br /> <br />November 18, 2019, Work Session – Item 1