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If you spend your money on the "child-like" activities (fantasy, gaming, etc) as opposed to adult-like ones (huge suburban house, car, boat) you help preserve b
by ajuc 3y ago
If you spend your money on the "child-like" activities (fantasy, gaming, etc) as opposed to adult-like ones (huge suburban house, car, boat) you help preserve biodiversity and help other people as a side-effect.
Also - planting trees is largely pointless. Trees plant themselves if you leave land unused. If they don't that usually means you have to waste a lot of resources to maintain the trees that you planted in particular spot.
It's funny how the societal norms work.
- positr0n 3y ago> Also - planting trees is largely pointless. Clearly this is a metaphor for doing things that will benefit future generations after you are gone. Planting a shade tree in a park, or planting trees (of appropriate species) along a street or sidewalk is not useless.
- K0balt 3y agoWow. You really only think of the costs of your consumption? It’s the costs of our production that propagates through time. Your consumption ends with you and is largely irrelevant. What are you helping to create? What does that look like in 50 years? I can’t imagine justifying my existence by what I don’t leave in the toilet.
- jjulius 3y agoYou implied someone else is a jerk in another comment, but really, I think that title might belong to someone else here. You're being quite judgemental.