Reply #16: What you conserve will be used by someone else. [View All]

I'm pretty sure that every kilowatt hour or drop of water I conserve is used directly to enhance the Country Club experience of some filthy rotten CEO. Less water for me, more chemically enhanced grass on the golf course. Less electricity for me and they can turn the thermostat down a notch at the nineteenth hole on a hot summer day.

In some places conservation and efficiency only make way for more babies.

So unless you couple conservation with strong social justice programs and a reduction in overall resource use, you accomplish nothing, and in most cases you actually make things worse. The rich get richer, resources are depleted at a faster rate, and more and more people suffer and die in poverty.