Mate they've got too much freedom over in yankee land, you'd probably get sued for chopping up someone's wood. Or if you hurt yourself chopping the wood up you might try and sue the wood owner because you have to pay for the doctor to fix you up.
Eating less meat et al is something we can personally do. The very wealthy have massive carbon footprints, mainly due to their ability to consume resources. It's like I still pick up my dog's shit at the park even though not everyone does. Giving up because not everyone is trying to care for the environment is definitely not the solution.
Because for older people it's about learning new things. I've just gotten my 80yo mum onto using a smart phone and it's baby steps but she's learning how to use it. She's learning something new. Before I had a falling out with my father, he had a tantrum at me using big fancy words that he doesn't understand, like app, play-store, email, dns, etc. If you can't fix it with a spanner or hammer he doesn't want anything to do with it, so he watches free2air tv, sips coffee and smokes weed; from what I can tell that's all he does.
I lived up the road from a feijoa orchard in Colevile in the 80s. We used to have fights with dropped/rotten ones then go jump in the river to wash off. Good times.
Turns out ethical wages and materials cost money. I agree that older tech being more ethical as whatever 'cost' is may have was paid by the first owner.
There's other phones with user replaceable batteries. I looked it up a month or so ago. They're not as ethical as fairphone, but still better than my drawer of working phones with dead batteries.
That's right, everyone sit on their hands and do nothing until we've got "good science". /s
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