Louise O'Neill: 'I looked at my own life and tried to see where I could improve in my efforts to become more sustainable.'
When I was a child, the hole in the Ozone layer was the environmental disaster that everyone was worried about. I remember lying on my back in our garden, staring at the sky, and imagining the sun’s rays slicing through the clouds, consuming everything in sight. We would be like ants caught under a magnifying glass, I thought, burning to death. CFCs, which were used in aerosol sprays like deodorant and hairspray, were found to be partly to blame, and so they were banned.
It didn’t seem like a matter of urgency.
