> _“I would like to improve, but everything feels like fighting windmills. If i recycle, how many rich people commission a ride to space for fun, rendering it useless?”_
I encounter that line of reasoning very often and, respectfully, I think it is bogus.
A couple ways to see that:
* When a billionaire wastes a gazillion dollars and tons of CO₂ to have a space walk, he is not “rendering your recycling useless”. Those things don't cancel each other out. A world with wasteful space walks where @admitsWrongIfProven does not recycle what is sensible to recycle is _worse_ than a world with wasteful space walks — full stop.
* I bet [you are “rich”](https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i). If you avoid your responsibility, you are providing excuses not to do their part to the next in line (mid-income people, not to mention poor people).
* You would not dare use that argument when talking about big evils. You do not hit your spouse, steal money from your neighbour, throw chemical waste in a river, or torture lizzards — but you know for sure that there are lots and lots of serial killers, child molesters, criminals, war lords, genocidal rulers, etc. You do what is right, because it's right. Why then should we accept that argument for little evils?
/cc @freemo
