[reallydontask]

> Depending on your perspective, every expenditure and experience that money can buy, can be viewed as wasteful and harming the environment. For someone with no access to water, a long shower feels very wasteful.

You seem to be searching for a binary answer to something that most people would agree is a gradient. A long shower is not even in the same ballpark as a private supersonic jet, you clearly know this.

> If we don't actively come out of this dogma and not embark on some ground breaking technology, our lives won't change at all.

It's not an either/or proposition