Thank you for the response, Tim. I think we need to be careful, too, of governments using the climate crisis as an excuse to take too much control, or to convince us that our lack of recycling is the problem — while still allowing big banks to fund wars, opening new oil fields, etc. There is a lot of debate on this topic, e.g. how green the “Green Revolution” really is, whether punishing small-time farmers for farming meat while funding massive projects into “fake meat” (using all sorts of processes, chemicals and GMOs) is really the way forward. I recommend Daniel Goleman’s book Ecological Intelligence as a nice starting point; he shows that the “environmentally friendly” option isn’t always the one we think it is.

I do quite respect/trust this organisation for calculating and “offsetting” your carbon footprint, although feel that offsetting is all to easily used to justify destructive behaviour: https://www.wren.co/ — but it can be a start for creating ‘rules’. The thing I fear though is that the pandemic has shown us that our “leaders” are all too happy to make rules that they themselves won’t follow…