I am trying to cut down on my use of plastic and now put loose veg straight into my basket in the supermarket and have gone back to using soap rather than shower gel and the like.

I figure not having children counts? But otherwise: using reusable coffee up for takeaway coffee, not buying handwash, etc.

so that is 2 nos so far. 

me yes. 

I have two fuel-guzzling cars, a real fire I burn coal on and a big house I don't need which uses loads of energy to heat.  I also fly regularly and eat fish, the obtaining of which leads to over 40% of plastic in the oceans.

But I turn down plastic straws in my gin and tonics when offered, so I'm good yeah?

not really pinko m7

even if u were carbon negative and don7ing all but a living allowance from ur income to charitable causes, I strongly suspect u would remain a putrescent arse-flavoured scrote

Good to know.  

Yes and in addition my home is solar powered with battery and feeds surplus back into the grid.

Out of interest Monkeygirkl do you drive?  And do you fly on holiday?

Or use a mobile phone?

Yes I drive and I fly. I live in a very big country.

The question is do you do anything. Not everything.

"doing anything   to make a difference?"

so no then. 

Surely to be "doing something" you need to be a net positive?

Hence my comments on people who LOUDLY don't use plastic straws but go on holiday to Dubai

"Oh yes I drive an SUV, and I fly lots, but I have solar panels, so I'd doing something"

No you're not, you're still causing net harm.  Come back when you're not and I'll listen. 

So yes then. Using solar vs coal fired grid. Makes a difference. 

Planting trees with the conservation society vs not planting trees. Makes a difference.

etc etc

People who walk or cycle rather than jumping in the car. Flying somewhere once every couple of years rather than every year. 

If it makes no difference, then let's none of us give a shit and be an a-hole, Dennis Leary-style.

As I say, you have a choice in everything you do.  If you are a net positive, salut!  If you're not (having acknowledged the importance of the issue) you're just moderately less shit than everyone else, that's all.

"you're just moderately less shit than everyone else"

I'll settle for that.

Put it on a T-shirt.  It's catchy.

Jamal as you so desperately want to change the goal posts please feel free to post a thread on making a net negative impact. Do you live in a city? All that concrete you're supporting. Please move into a mud hut built with your own hands. That device you're using? How many baby animals died cleaning the land to build the mine for the metals which make that?

You changed the goal posts. I was answering the OP.

and heh @ PP

No I don't live in a city.  I also don't purport to "make a difference" while not "making a difference" which was the OP's question.

Hopey helpy

The Mrs is dead keen on this stuff so I do my best.  like buying those 4packs of fosters that come in plastic wrapping rather than the traditional gull stranglers.  

Flying Wang: green hero

BTW I live in a barn which is basically recycled.  So that gives me enough virtue points based on your solar panel logic to be smug for 100 years.  I've only used 39 up.

Well good for you. Seriously. You win. But you're more of an asshole than the monks of Tibet.

Interesting point re monks.  Entirely fair to argue they havs for centuries been a bunch of lazy bastards who spend all day snoozing and singing and doing some colouring in, living in standards far above those on whose largess they depend.  Holy w**kers.

on the other hand they invented beer.  ish.

I would just like to add that I am pleased that the toothsome young lady in the video has recovered from her cancer.

Space bats.