9 Ways Witches Impact the Environment
This Hallowe’en season, what can we learn from witches about how to combat climate change?
Anyone who’s watched David Attenborough’s latest documentary, A Life on Our Planet, knows that climate change is scary. It will cause crops to die, animals to lose their habitats and millions of people will have to leave their homes. To beat it we need something scarier than climate change: witches. Witches are unarguably spooky: they are the number one adult Hallowe’en costume. Luckily they also do some pretty environmentally friendly things.
1. Pointed hats and cloaks
Witches are rarely seen without their signature pointed hats. They’re also often portrayed wearing lots of shawls and long, black cloaks. Wearing warm clothes, like a thick jumper or a witch’s cloak, and turning down the thermostat is one of the best small household changes to save energy.
This makes such a difference because heating is the biggest usage of energy in the home. The environmental cost of air conditioners is well-known, but even in warm, humid areas heating a home uses more energy over a year…
