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Being older I feel myself drawn to the shortcut of buy something and throw out/donate the old. Time is precious. Yet I try to remind myself of the growing mountain of landfill that I've been building with every trip to the garbage can.

(Typing this from a thrift store parking lot where I'm trying to avoid buying more new clothes.)

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This resonates. It’s kind of like a carbon footprint lifestyle inflation. For me, I’m using more paper towels around the house than what I allowed myself to use when I was younger.

Honest question to the environmental experts here: what’s the best way for me to throw money at this personal problem? Carbon credits? Donations to particular nonprofits? Other ideas?

Not carbon credits.

Personal disengagement from the heat engine.

Can you suggest a resource for getting started with disengagement, geared towards people like myself that have more money than time?

If you're a doomer (i.e., not for everybody): an interesting perspective on radical disengagement: [0]

Ran Prieur - discussed in another thread on HN, or [1]

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[0] https://youtu.be/dsNWH8ESCAM

[1] http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html

Is there a company I can pay to actually do the dumpster diving for me, though?

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