Reminder, when you don’t do things by the book, the perp wins in court on technicalities or wins on appeal. For example, see Harvey Weinstein.

Perspective matters. There’s a couple things you can do to majorly reduce your carbon footprint. Beyond those it gets increasingly difficult to have smaller and smaller effects. At some point the next most effective things to do with your time and effort become

• do activism
• earn more money
  • to buy offsets
  • to donate to activist charities

The time and effort you spend living like a weirdo has an opportunity cost that you could be doing those things. Furthermore it looks bad. There was a study that found that when you tell people that tackling climate change requires major sacrifice, they became more likely to deny climate change is even real.

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For further details, see “The Master Plan” podcast series from The Lever.