Being a young person who has grown up surrounded by media warning us of the oncoming disaster of climate change, the younger generation often seem to possess a sense of doom and extreme trepidation towards the world we will be inhabiting in the future, not to mention the world of our children and grandchildren. We often picture and have come to expect a not so distant future of continuous natural disasters from flooding, drought and raging wildfires to extreme tropical storms, tornados and hurricanes. These disasters which have naturally occurred throughout earth history are expected to worsen both in frequency as well as intensity according to The Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions and this has already begun. 

 These natural disasters will lead to starvation due to crop failure and drought as well climate displacement as land becomes unliveable, unfarmable and sea levels rise. These tragedies will disproportionally affect the worlds poorest and most vulnerable. This is not even to mention the disastrous impacts on wildlife globally including massive habitat loss and risks of mass extinction to a large portion of the world's biodiversity and ecosystems according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).                                       

Personally, learning of this and growing up being educated on the certainty of it if nothing is done to stop it fosters a melancholy view on the future of our planet and an anger towards those who have the power to make great change but choose not to. However, it also breeds a determination to demand a better world and to make small personal changes to achieve it. That is what Green Skye is to me. 

Do I think my small business is in a place to demand legislation is implemented to cut global emissions?... No. But, can I turn one of my biggest passions into a small business providing my customers with a place where they can purchase carefully curated products which can help them minimise their current consumption of single use plastic  and reduce their carbon footprint?... If all goes to plan, yes!