This is a Net Zero Blog

Most consumer products are crap we don’t need.

You could call this blog a net zero blog, but not the net zero that most people are thinking about these days.

Our net zero is about reducing dependence on the system’s capitalist consumer crap complex to zero.

Why is this important? Because ninety percent of everything is crap. At least, that’s what science fiction writer, Theodore Sturgeon, opined in 1957.

 

His revelation has been dubbed “Sturgeon’s Law” ever since, even though this reality has probably been known since forever.

The way I see it, Sturgeon wasn’t being ambitious enough. Many would put the amount of crap at around 99%. On a good day.

Living a not buying anything life helps achieve a balance between the amount of this crap that flows into our lives and the amount removed, resulting in no net increase in crap levels. 

Our net zero way of living typically involves eliminating purchases, and therefore potential crapification, as much as possible through measures like reducing, refusing, replacing, repairing, and rethinking. 

It also means learning to do things yourself, while offsetting any remaining crap intrusions through actions like decluttering, downsizing, and other marvelous minimalist methods.

And it also means living according to the ''one thing in, one thing out’’ rule, which leaves the crap level neutral overall. 

Consumer crap is harmful to children and other living things, and is more harmful to life as we know it than CO2. Actually, the consumption of consumer crap   creates CO2 in large quantities, so when you reduce the crap you also reduce the CO2. 

Considering this, you would think that governments would be promoting simplicity and minimalism, but I don’t see this happening. 

How curious this callous crap conundrum. 

I still think the best solution is to go net zero on the crap continuum, and simply not buy anything you don’t need.

What do you think? Are you part of our net zero crap community, or do you think you might like to join us? 

We are a gentle, compassionate and kind group, and our goal is to make life great again for all the world's children, and all other living things. Not through the banks and elite controlled systems, but by individual personal changes, and community efforts from the ground up.

Let us know where you stand in a comment below.