2025: ins and outs

what's hot and what's not 🌍🥵

2025

Outs

• plastic straw shame

• artisanal water bottles

• over-processed plant-based meat

• the grass industrial complex: kill your lawn!

• "low-waste" meal kits that ship with tons of plastic packaging

• climate doomscrolling

• public gatherings of more than two cishet men

• aspirational grocery shopping (you don’t actually like jícama, and that’s okay)

• policing how your neighbor sorts their recycling

• living with toxic couches

• quiet luxury. we are embracing LOUD outfits we cobbled together

• microtrends, please (hi, i was a victim of the pandemic tiny-purse trend)

• a curated social media feed: post that photo with your nose hair peeking out

• cashless payment: bring back cash!!!

• not everything can be a “vibe”

• owning art: we “steward”

Ins

• borrow, don’t buy

• “wintering”— embracing winter wherever you are

• turning your polycule into a voting block for the midterm elections

• window sill gardening

• learning how to fix everyday objects

• dismantling the toxic “manosphere”

• challenging your enemies to a public debate

• knowing who your elected officials are

• listening to climate scientists

• carpooling with friends to run errands

• exploring what it would take to live closer to your friends

• naming and shaming companies that profit from genocide

• treating your cellphone like a landline: (hint: put it somewhere and don’t look at it)

• saving your veggie scraps to make stock!

• talking points to save democracy

• mutual aid requests as the new flirting: “looking for someone to start a community fridge with in my area. you be: hot for food access. i’ll be: waiting ;)”

• putting respect on the “Peanut President’s” climate legacy

• getting used to fact-checking social media

• digital minimalism to reclaim your time

• wild, belligerent hope

Me looking for something funny to say about the current state of the world

If you’ve ever thought “Am I the climate a**hole..???” I want to hear from you! Send your wacky, weird, philosophical questions about climate or the environment to paigeycurtis[at]gmail.com.