financial changes
Ethical banking I read an article that stated; most people who try to shop ethically forget their ethics when it came to money! or more precisely banking and investments, this was a light bulb moment for me as I was one of those people! I was regular paying extra for products that were organic/palm oil free/no plastic waste/ fair trade/rainforest alliance etc, BUT and it’s a big BUT! I had never previously to reading that article considered that my savings would be getting used by my bank to finance nasty things like deforestation, weapons manufacturing, pesticide production, the disposable plastics industry, sweat shops, fracking etc, reading this really saddened me; why had I not considered this previously? The current system of international finance is of course behind nearly all the problems the planet is facing, I had been blind not to think that shopping ethically should also include your financial choices! In fact, this is probably more important than checking product labels