> using less water won't make it last longer when you represent a permille of the total consumption Using less water will make finite water supply last longer.

> using less water won't make it last longer when you represent a permille of the total consumption Using less water will make finite water supply last longer. You yourself have a small effect, but it is an effect. Compare that with the elections, where you're not going to have any impact whatsoever. > The problem with climate change is that it's more like 95% of people doing nothing cause they just want to live a normal life, and 5% of people trying to do something in a futile way. Those 5% can lobby, talk to friends and make it 10%, then maybe 20% and it starts to become a strong political force. OTOH you appear to lobby for making 0% out of the 5% ... > In the end it doesn't matter if a few million choose to cut down on consumption when the end result is exactly the same in an ocean of billions. No, the result will not be exactly the same. If you e.g. produce less waste, then the total amount of waste will be smaller by that amount. > That's more like a democratic fantasy, believing that most people would even chose to to the right thing if given the option, instead of the most convenient thing. People have been convinced to do less convenient things. In most western countries, people learned to not throw trash on the sidewalk and make the extra effort to throw it in a in.