As I was walking into work today I saw a dairy lorry stop outside an office building in the city centre and the delivery man got out to deliver just six small pint cartons of milk into one of the offices. Less than a minutes' walk away from that office building there is a supermarket that sells milk.
It struck me what an enormous waste of fuel, time and money this is. Imagine that delivery driver coming into the busy city centre each day with a large refrigerated lorry, adding to the congestion and pollution, to leave six pints of milk. It probably isn't the only delivery he makes in the city centre each day, but that's hardly the point. It is an unnecessary journey, so an office can make their tea and coffee without having to go all the way (50 metres max) to the supermarket to buy milk.
Surely this is precisely the kind of waste that we as a society and as a planet can no longer afford. One lorry delivering the milk to the supermarket should really be enough for all the offices around there, shouldn't it?
These are small, apparently insignificant choices we make every day that cumulatively are wrecking the environment.
For more ideas on how we can change things to "live lightly" and ethically, check out the A Rocha Living Lightly website. They are a Christian charity working "to inspire churches and individuals to get involved in caring for God's creation through a whole variety of ways and runs a number of practical conservation projects."
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