Would planting a hedge or shrubs on your side be an option? Much nicer than a fence, provides a biotope for birds, insects and other animals, can bear fruit (yummy berries!)

Growing to a hight of 3 ft (~90 cm) should be a matter of 2 or 3 years, depending on the plants.

Not sure what you are suggesting the better alternative would be?

The same as with any gadget: use it until it’s broken beyond repair.

Trading your ICE car for an EV? So somebody else now drives your old car? Doesn’t save any CO2.

As far as I know it applies to anything where there’s a risk the chemical can affect the body. Like food and cosmetics (and the containers if there’s a chance that anything can leach into the product), but I can imagine it also applies to clothing fabric because it’s worn on the skin for a long time. Door handles and things like that? Less likely. But definitely toys, because children can (and will) chew on them.

Enter Europe’s precautionary principle when it comes to food safety: you don’t have to show that a chemical is harmful to ban it, but you have to prove it safe to be allowed in the food cycle. Guilty until proven innocent.

I simply use a cup for my coffee (https://pngimg.com/uploads/mug_coffee/mug_coffee_PNG16835.png)

Why should I not kill somebody? In Germany, there were a bit over 200 murders last year. One more would be less than 1/2 %. And globally it is really negligible. Same logic!

I buy from a German second hand online shop which has a decent selection most of the time. But you often have to be patient if you want something specific. It’s not like “I need xyz tomorrow, let’s buy something”, but more “It’s January, but will be hot again in summer. Let’s see if there’s a nice shirt and summer suit on offer within the next 20 weeks”

As a fellow atheist, I love your bible argument! 😂

I can imagine it’s more difficult for women, but as a man I haven’t really looked into that. And as an old man dressing more on the “formal” side it might be easier to find clothes, than younger “athleisure” people.

Reducing the amount you buy doesn’t reduce the particles shed during wearing and washing.

But of course buying less overall, and as much second hand as possible, is always the better option not just for clothes. And some skills in mending your clothes so you don’t have to throw them away just because of a broken zipper or a ripped seam.

Best investment: a sewing machine.

Try linen (even comes in jersey knit!)

Linen and wool whenever possible. Or cotton, which has some issues (needs a lot of water to grow, gets damp very easily - sweat and rain! - and takes a long time to dry)

Over the last 10 or so years I eliminated all plastic fibres from my warderobe almost entirely. Problem almost solved. Industry and politics: too little, too late. Again.

For instance, the US would require a 75% reduction in beef consumption just for it to have enough grassland for it.

Aren’t you looking from the wrong end here? Ban anything but grass-feeding, put high import taxes on beef (the latter should be easy to sell: protect domestic farmers!), and consumption will go down automatically, because the supply drops by 75%.

Wolves had been extinct in western Europe for hundreds of years, only slowly spreading again after the fall of the Iron Curtain 30-something years ago. And, consequently, the hunting quotas for deer are being lowered.

The chaos caused by eliminating wolves is slowly getting back to balance.

By the way: a 100 year old forest is in its early childhood. Hasn’t even reached puberty yet.

I’m in Germany, where hunting is highly regulated (not “recreational”) with specific quotas which have to be followed (a fermales and b males from species 1, c females and d males from species 2 etc.). No more, no less, and roadkill has to be accounted for.

Thankfully, wolves are slowly coming back, so the quotas can be (and are in certain regions) lowered - but, unfortunately, now wolf-haters show up whining about their sheep because they are unwilling to invest in proper fences and guard dogs, even while both are subsidized by the state.

That’s only true if there are enough carnivores like wolves and bears around. If not: goodbye forests. Hunting is pest control.

Getting microplastic out of the water is important.

But in the long run that’s not the solution. Microplastic is not just in the water, but everywhere, like in the soil. Textiles not only shed plastic when you wash them, but even more when you wear them. Solution: don’t buy. Use natural fibres.

Same with plastic utensils, cups, plates, containers etc.: don’t use! There have been alternatives for (almost) as long as humans exist. From wood to metal to ceramics to glass.

Try bone glue: https://www.fine-tools.com/G10008.html

My dad always had a tin can of glue simmering in a pot of hot water, in his workshop, “back in the days”, 1960s.

I have been reading what you wrote, but I don’t consider your “renewables can’t” a valid point. They can.

But I don’t think we will ever be able to convince each other. Can we agree on that?