This is what I'm wondering re: calculating carbon footprint. I saw a thing a few years ago about the biggest lifestyle changes one can make to reduce one's carbon footprint: Give up flying, go vegan, don't have kids, get an electric car, etc. And the biggest when they calculated was get an electric car. This makes no sense to me because of the carbon cost of manufacturing said car (unfortunately, I suspect the big lifestyle change is "give up flying," which I don't want to do) and disposing of old cars.
I have all kinds of leather stuff from my pre-vegan days, and it's lower impact than the equivalent "vegan" leather. I'm positive that my reusable plastic lunch containers are lower impact than bringing a paper bag every day. Etc.
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Date: 2020-01-19 01:57 pm (UTC)I have all kinds of leather stuff from my pre-vegan days, and it's lower impact than the equivalent "vegan" leather. I'm positive that my reusable plastic lunch containers are lower impact than bringing a paper bag every day. Etc.