It’s a provocative question: Can decades-old war posters inform our thinking about what people can do to fight climate change?
That’s being asked today on the blog Treehugger, which presents a photo gallery made up mostly of World War II-era posters in the U.S. The posters encourage Americans to conserve everything they can to help the Allied war effort against the Axis powers.
What’s striking is that these messages encourage actions that still have value today. Carpooling, driving less, recycling, even taking what modern society has dubbed a staycation – these are all valuable actions that individual people can take, today, to cut back on their carbon footprints.
(Seriously, the guy on that aforementioned staycation looks like he’s having the best time ever. A dog, a fan, a good magazine, and a huge glass of Scotch – what else do you need?)
We’re not saying that there’s a broad, political message to be gleaned here. But these posters are a fascinating reminder that resources are precious – whether your end goal is to win a war or to save the planet.
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