HABITS: washing machines etc aren't great (a sign of over-kill and bad tech habits)... maybe similar to using how we're using BIGTech equipment and cloud storage...
Analogy For Technology AND #Climate Change - A kind of formulae how our habits and expectations need a chosen limit and we got into this mess where
1/ climate change activist using washing machines etc aren't a great sign
2/ technologist using a massive cloud storage, Gb's to TB's to PB's is also a kind of similar crazy..
Summary:
1/ Instead of washing machine + chemicals, use a bucket and no chemicals and see what happens after drying in the sun
2/ Reduce your data down to text and audio, chosen video's or leave it to archive.org - just something not assuming infinite space usually from USA backends (multiple reasons in itself)!
DETAILS / WHY:
The analogy is that it's more than enough and ecologically honest for everything to hand-wash and yet people are putting on machines every day or feel they need a machine what can be done in the same time or less.
Massive / heavy machines which need servicing piping wiring space etc...
TEST A SOLUTION / CHANGE HABITS
Just get a bucket, fill it half or a quarter, squeeze t-shirt etc a few times and you're done! See if it killed you. Hang it somewhere.
This habit is like do-as-you-go / as you need.
I hand wash (cold, warm or hot) - I think often machines for washing are overkill or marginally needed to have anything else or a perfectionist outlook / biologically 'fascism' to try and clean something 'perfect' or get to 'white' levels... to the extent you bleach it, kill it or add chemicals only to wear it and do the same tomorrow for what is casual use.
Even bed sheets etc I do way in a bigger pot or bath tub... what's wrong with doing it by hand and then putting it on the heater, outside in sun etc to dry
Kind of like video now, too much graphics, not enough gameplay or games have been out-tech'd.
I see this basic gaming and washing the same, where I was happy playing those games so cheap in terms of hardware / operating system / Gb's / assets etc...
More Details: Wash clothes with water can be hot water / warm remember! and it's no big thing... done for years no drama. Just I do it cold and let sun burn it now.
MAIN POINT AGAIN
The habit or feeling that has been developed / been trained in us is that " it's bad without " something- always need to add chemicals. Psychological. Crazy un-eco stuff too.
In my book it's perhaps over-kill of having that kind of tech in first place, but all the points listed below will help you see it's not needed or once in a blue moon. Or we need to undo this 'advance' by BiGTECH (yeah I'm talking luxury 'White Goods' here also in washing machines mainly!)
Like maybe in a hotel I can imagine it more as mass but you see people / we in technology have to be so careful. To keep things basic... the audio / video, the hardware... dirt-cheap as possible and even decline more cloud computing American cheap-space. Understand 1000's Gb's do have a cost somewhere and in total it's the same as if you dumped a server centre next to you house!
LIST OF POINT: (Where it costs / What you don't see)
More Power Consumption - more power usually with tech (like washing machine example or graphics cards that need Wattage)
Probably people don't realise air-conditioning need fuel.
More Material - Metals, PCBs, Wires, Pies, Electric God-like mass extraction and re-dist
NEW Kills old product life-cycles - by buying new people encourage it - they track the units sold...
Maintanance - needing a machine or your data needs servicing and can also leak and cause bigger problems (water or corruption)- it's not perfect / can fuck up too and waste time, creating more problems like if data exists in the first place / you're caught with it
Habits - they changed when you upgrade because you expect to run everything fast and forget what you had and then appreciate everything less or normalise bloat / like toys when young we appreciated when we chose more and it was special/respect what we wanted
now too many toys = disinterest / uncaring attitude / 'not enough time'
Chemical additives - encourages washing power which is like death dust
Gov regulates all Tech therefore anything new from BigTech + Gov = bad / not going to be for the eco stuff.
God... I mean Gov leaning toward evil / authoritarian / without consent stuff / military first then domesticating it = never good for eco or other reasons like extracting metals from other country and causing wars there....
More space needed, delivery vans, when moving house you have to 'do' something with it.
IT'S ALL CONNECTED... JUST GET BUCKET! :) Test it out at least,
Don't be so sterile / ultra-clean / believe the killing 99% of 'bacteria' is needed -
Mixing the water with instant-death go-to-hospital chemicals is the imperative !
Others Tech Tips
Adjust how much you use or even backup - make things disposable / expired, especially if really are frequently been repeated or similar,
OUTRO
Billions and billions are using and this puts pressure on earth itself (Gov's know and actually leverage it). So we don't use or need these '' cheap '' server farm type things which look cheap but overall in the list said are not, we can see the reality they just cost everything and are eating everything else (almost people too if you think about it in those foreign countries for resources).
Costing more in life in different and more problem-causing ways.
Unless you do something hitting hard and winning the fight like archive.org (maybe could partially need deleting too)... then well it's rather bloat or just more stuff to manage... put a limit on your 'stuff' like 2 hard disks max!
Convert Video to Audio - if you have video chats ---> convert to audio MP3 / .ogg / etc if it's mostly inanimate faces you win and get hard disk space back and something low tech to upload/share etc later!
FEEDBACK WELCOME.....
Any points / counter-point welcome as other than 'making time' and creating habits (back to what we had) I don't see it much of a problem and YOU CAN START WITH 1 T-SHIRT A DAY IN A BUCKET!!!
HABITS: washing machines etc aren't great (a sign of over-kill and bad tech habits)... maybe similar to using how we're using BIGTech equipment and cloud storage...
@freeschool
A washing machine uses less water than a bucket.
Moreover, grease and spots don't go away with only water, thus you can wash clothes with water for a few times but after it will start building up.
Killing bacteria, specially on underwear and sheets, is quite important as well to prevent infections
@rastinza Yeah I get it... but still seems overkill for what you can do in handwash (if you want to use soaps or hardcore chemicals).
By the way 10s of years and nothing...
So looking at all the points I mentioned, testing it, and apart from a few points you have there a couple aesthetics reality should be able to live (sports and stains) which you can still deal with in handwash - I think still it's really extreme and for the exchange of having machines terrible economy (as in planet, money and resources)...
over-doing it in process (would be ok once a month maybe)
but then over-washing as a daily thing sometimes. Sickening over-use.
Not to mention the money which I didn't really mention before in buying stuff and not knowing what things are made from... repair, replacing every few years / planned obsolescences / electronic boards not replaceable or can't be found to repair.
Really extreme to get so 'clean' with all this machine related damage.
So it still seems all my points makes your points insignificant or less, as equivalents also exist,
In real ecological terms if people see the list of things (maybe I should make a picture) and say at the end it's ok then it's a psychological thing or level of clean for perfectionists (often this is what reality needs toning down as the ste up to perfection drains so much more resources than leaving things less 'white', cream or grey <--- give a fuck).
It's like all the list of things and you come back with things you can still do with handwash.
JUDGMENT: (unless you have more points):
IF you want to have an extreme exchange for what you think is necessary, then use machines, buy from them and ignore what your hands can do more honourably.
Actually I will add hand-washing probably uses more water but that is more abundant and spendable than all those heavy weights and metals, transport, factories, etc...
Depends if you value and rate all those things. I'm sure some people don't even see it and even worse psychologically think their existence themself is an infection or infestation and have to constantly scrub themself off rather than let it be A BIT MORE.
I guess it's not far off saying we went to far and now generation things this level is ok. Looking from the usage of machines on the planet and where we're at ANY climate change person or not really has to shake their psychology up and at leat pretend "ït's for the planet" and take control of their life (not just protest or write posts on Mastodon or wherever)
So on one side you have overkill in the name xyz terrorist you think exists (harmless biology mostly or enough with warm / hot water) and then on the other side you have eco-cide for your pants which I'm sure are soo bad...
You choose cide you might be on. Bit of an abrupt end but I think your pants are probably not that bad if you do it once in a while.
We're not talking about intensive hotels or hospital care here...
But a check into the mental hospital I would all civilisation.
At least to test it themselves, reduce the bar or frequency but yeah at the end: leave those machines alone, let the planet be better off without them.