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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not upper income, but we've tried to consider environmental factors. We live in a very old rowhome instead if a newer SFH, so our house is leaky in terms of energy use, but didn't require new construction or paving over green space. We have a tiny yard in exchange for living very close to our schools and downtown, so we have one car and try to bike whenever possible. Unfortunately I cancel a lot of that out by commuting 50 miles to work once a week, do my best to carpool, and hope to switch to a closer or MARC-accessible job in a couple years.

Someday we'd like a hybrid car, but we definitely need to stretch our old gas powered car until it dies, and there's no way we can charge an electric vehicle given that we have street parking.

We haven't flown for a vacation since our honeymoon 7 years ago. I do plan to travel by plane with my family someday though. It won't be multiple times a year but I'm not willing to say never.

In terms of consumption we try to minimize how much beef we eat, but that's about it.

I think it's important to at least consider sustainability as a factor in daily life decisions, my parents say "well we can't solve the problem or be perfect individually so nothing we do matters and we shouldn't bother" and I disagree with that. But I also think we will never, ever make a difference if we ONLY look at it as an individual consumer responsibility. Collective action is the route to big change, and in terms of industrial contributions, government has an important role to play. Activism matters. [/quote]

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