> For example, recycling, shutting off the lights when leaving a room and avoiding plastic packaging are lower-impact behaviours that are overestimated in terms

> For example, recycling, shutting off the lights when leaving a room and avoiding plastic packaging are lower-impact behaviours that are overestimated in terms of how much they can reduce one’s carbon footprint. Turning off the lights is almost a don't-give-a-damn item in the age of the LED, when you have 6W doing the job of 60W. Recycling is a scam that was originally introduced by the plastics industry in order to overcome people's objections against discardable plastic objects. Most of it ends up in landfills. To really cut your carbon footprint, don't take flights. There is a term jet set for the rich, referring to their means to fly frequently all over the place, internationally and domestically. That spews carbon like anything.