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To think one persons’ action on not having one or two kids will save the planet. Must think highly of themselves to think it will make a difference.

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Or very lowly of themselves, making a selfless decision that is so personally significant, yet by itself so objectively insignificant.

Although in the interviewee's case, it seems she personally didn't want to have children anyway, and considers environmental concerns to be a justification for that preference.

You're not just avoiding the environmental impact of your hypothetical children, but also grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and so on.

I bet you also don't vote :)

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Do you recycle?

Do you recycle anything other than tin and glass?

Personally, no, I'm not even recycling tin or glass since I don't own a smelter. But recycling should be an industrial process, I am just to pay taxes on damaging/hard to recycle materials at the time of purchase and pay for the rubbish pick-up. If for the average citizen "recycling" means anything more than separating biological waste from recyclable solids, then it's done wrong.

Yes? Newsprint, cardboard, plastic, metal, coloured glass, clear glass and food waste go into seperate containers. Also batteries and lightbulbs are collected seperately.

Congratulations. Outside of tin, and glass, most things on that list take more energy to recycle than to just grow and/or extract from the ground. Keep that good-feel-but-otherwise-non-ecologically energy flowing.

Paper?

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