In addition, I hope you will add a number 8 or incorporate this into your ‘lifestyle’ choice about using tumble dryers: Lawns — which use clean water (which costs energy to be cleaned) and usually are mowed using more toxic smog lawnmowers than I can imagine — and the late 20th century’s replacement for the RAKE, the energy-eating and smog creating LEAFBLOWER.

Although, as a studio apartment dweller who has walked my laundry 5 blocks to a laundromat, I cannot imagine carrying it home sopping wet, I KNOW my carbon footprint i reduced because I don’t require a lawn, lawnmower or leafblower.

Again, thanks for this fine advice, and putting diet choices first.

The major problem in this scenario, is that vegans may miss out on many opportunities to make social ties to people because they are different. They may go so far as to avoid social events at which animal products are served. This shows that they have very little tolerance of diets different than their own, and furthermore, they may believe that befriending a non-vegan is akin to promoting a non-vegan diet.

As ‘healthy’ as a vegan diet sounds, Most vegans/ Vegetarians diets lack protein:
Cutting out meat eliminates a huge protein source. A former “meat and potatoes” person cuts out meat and is left, with say, potatoes, which don’t have much protein.

Iron–Cutting all that blood out of your diet removes a huge source of iron for your own blood.

Although we are all here to help improve the climate I find trying to get people to become vegans and vegetarians quite controlling as we are all natural meat eaters.