Camping is usually something I do with other people rather than initiate myself and yet half way through a two week camping holiday with my daughter I think that camping is a climate action for many different reasons.
1) You can see how spectacular your own country is instead of flying overseas. Flying overseas for a holiday is a huge carbon emitter that negates being vegetarian, and using public transport all year. Stay at home and see what the overseas tourists have been coming to see in your country.
2) You can use it to connect to the place that you live. Explore the National Parks near you and learn more about the natural and human history of your area.
3) Being in nature is beneficial to your health and helps you recharge your batteries so you can continue to fight for climate action. Living close to nature reminds you of what you are fighting for and that you are part of nature, not separate to it. Get back to nature to help deal with climate grief.
4) Camping reminds you of how little you really need. Depending on your camping level of comfort instead of a housefull of “Stuff” you just need what fits in your caravan, car or backpack. This helps inoculate you against all those advertisements telling you you need “product A” in order to be fulfilled or happy. After a week of camping we don’t even feel like window shopping any more. Our overconsumption of things is individually our major contribution to climate change.
5) You can test out your natural disaster emergency kit and see what is essential and what is just pleasant. There really is a lot of similarity between a simple camping kit and an emergency kit and you get to have fun and use it more.
6) You can practice skills which are needed to both reduce individual carbon emissions and increase your resilience to climate breakdown. Skills such as cooking without electricity and keeping food without electricity, safe sanitation practices, keeping warm/cool without electricity.
1) You can see how spectacular your own country is instead of flying overseas. Flying overseas for a holiday is a huge carbon emitter that negates being vegetarian, and using public transport all year. Stay at home and see what the overseas tourists have been coming to see in your country.
2) You can use it to connect to the place that you live. Explore the National Parks near you and learn more about the natural and human history of your area.
3) Being in nature is beneficial to your health and helps you recharge your batteries so you can continue to fight for climate action. Living close to nature reminds you of what you are fighting for and that you are part of nature, not separate to it. Get back to nature to help deal with climate grief.
4) Camping reminds you of how little you really need. Depending on your camping level of comfort instead of a housefull of “Stuff” you just need what fits in your caravan, car or backpack. This helps inoculate you against all those advertisements telling you you need “product A” in order to be fulfilled or happy. After a week of camping we don’t even feel like window shopping any more. Our overconsumption of things is individually our major contribution to climate change.
5) You can test out your natural disaster emergency kit and see what is essential and what is just pleasant. There really is a lot of similarity between a simple camping kit and an emergency kit and you get to have fun and use it more.
6) You can practice skills which are needed to both reduce individual carbon emissions and increase your resilience to climate breakdown. Skills such as cooking without electricity and keeping food without electricity, safe sanitation practices, keeping warm/cool without electricity.
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