It matters not a whit whether oil is made by algae, dinosaurs or leprechauns. The point is that it's a huge reservoir of sequestered carbon that we're pumping gleefully into the atmosphere at millions of times the rate at which the world can hide it away again.

"Use both sides of the paper" - is that toilet paper she's referring to? Individuals reducing usage of printer paper is crass tokenism.

"carry your own mugs"- ??????

The detox stuff is largely crap. The RoHS directive is tripe, and WEE is a catastrophe waiting to happen- it will hit small producers in Europe, not megacorps importing from China.

Reducing usage of the car is a great thing, but we are importing the USA to Britain- they've just built a new supermarket close to the town centre here, just far enough out to make it hard to walk to. They've also moved the bus station there, AND THE TOILETS FROM THE INDOOR MARKET! So stallholders have to hold more than their stalls now. They took away the free parking, except for the supermarket's own, which of course is patrolled by clampers. They also diverted the main road to make sure you have to go past the supermarket to get to the town centre.

But I still want to know how all the people thrown out of work by reduction of consumption are going to earn a living. It's not that I'm in favour of consumerism, but that you have to have a vision for the whole economy.