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Or you should just build the house you actually want and then worry about more important things. Your car(s) will do much more ecological harm than your house.

Worse, spending effort on reducing the ecological impact of expensive homes to an absolute minimum is a game of diminishing returns. It wastes resources that would be better spent encouraging more modest levels of change at far broader levels that would lead to a much greater reduction of the total human footprint.

This is why these objections are much less about the natural environment and simply NIMBY reactions to a change to the social environment.