[adamcstephens]

Thank you for this. I don’t see how we make any significant changes to our trajectory without accepting a “lower” quality of life than what we have now. We need to localize, we need to rid ourselves of continuous consumption of useless junk, and we need to reconnect our resource use to the planet that sustains us.

None of that is accomplished by the virtue signaling you mention of replacing one luxury item with another different one.