Are you a woolly Quaker?
David Keating writes about the rich heritage of Quakers and wool
I have been following with interest our concern as Friends over what is termed our ‘carbon footprint’ and our need to reduce it as much as we can and to promote ‘a low carbon society’. Concern is voiced over using carbon as fuel and also in extracting and refining oil. However, if we seek to limit our consumption of carbon, and thereby reduce the demand for extraction, should we not be looking further at our overall consumption, apart from just burning it as fuel?
Gone are the days when we used paper bags and wicker baskets for shopping, tins and cardboard, glass or pottery containers, greaseproof paper, and so on for storage. Now we use oil-based plastics. Indeed, plastic products are so prevalent in our lives that they seem indispensable and some paper products – even loo paper – are plastic based.
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