Framing the climate crisis through the lens of individual lifestyle changes has always struck me as an absurd morality play. You might hope they're the first step to lifestyle changes that actually matter a damn, but the opposite is true. Avoiding flights (1.6 tons C02 per transatlantic roundtrip)To compensate for your holiday jaunt to Spain, you'd have to faithfully tote a reusable shopping bag for the next 320 years. Living car-free (2.4 tons C02 per year)Good news: if you live without a car for a year, you can go ahead and enjoy 87,000 milky coffees guilt-free. The pattern here is that you can have a big environmental impact by focusing on a small number of effective lifestyle changes, rather than lots of theatrical ones.

Source: Stuff January 25, 2020 16:52 UTC