I agree. I'm at less than a third of the typical US footprint. I offset the rest. That involves, in its totality, not jetting around, not driving an ICE, and

I agree. I'm at less than a third of the typical US footprint. I offset the rest. That involves, in its totality, not jetting around, not driving an ICE, and not eating meat. My country uses primarily renewables. A whole bunch of the rest of that is related to industrial processes and transport of food/materials that can be addressed. It would not impact me severely if my fruits came from different places or I had to eat different fruits. I don't think my life is "worse" at all than the typical American lifestyle. People talk about quality of life, but what they actually mean is that they've chosen some arbitrary metric to maximise (e.g. overseas holidays particularly to very far flung places or whatever) and if they don't have that then QoL would be lower. To me that sounds like a boring life, not a quality life. Before someone trots out the 'but EVs are expensive'; 'but solar will take time' stuff; sure, it's not trivial for people to do this stuff in isolation, the point is that reducing carbon doesn't mean living in a cave. It means some small mindful adjustments, that's it. When I look at what I'm using honestly it could be way lower making more substitutions; it'd just be the companies that provide services to me substituting instead of me, e.g. regulation.