I'm not trying to shame people for taking long showers, so I'm sorry if it came across that way. What I'm trying to say is that these systems and habits we have should be examined and chosen consciously. It's easier for me to take shorter showers but harder for me to not drive, so that is the choice that I make. I refuse to feel shamed for my driving, because if I give up driving, I literally cannot get my daughter to child care, and therefore cannot go to work. Similarly, you shouldn't feel shamed for taking longer showers because that is what your body (and your spirit) needs.

The other thing that I'm trying to say, which I don't think is coming across properly, is that I keep hearing people have this disconnect of "well, I'm doing all I can at home, but I don't have control over the industry", as if industry is this nebulous thing that is very far away and very impossible to affect. And I want to push back on that and say "but industry is run by people who work there." I feel like there are a lot of people who scrimp and save at home, and then go to work and look at all the waste that goes on there and feel like it's "just the way it works." I totally agree that we need industry on board, and part of that is for people to look at ways that they can push at this at work. Which, in my case, might start with figuring out a way to reuse all the paper that we go through at work. (Definitely easier at smaller companies than large ones, but still, something worth pushing for.)