The autor has a nice article about not enough fires:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/12/too-much-combustio...

I’ve just given up on the guilt. I live near one of the largest rivers in the world. I’m surrounded by the most fertile farmland in the world. These may be problems for people that live in places that in retrospect aren’t great for human habitation, but not here.

I think I’m going to buy myself a shower head with a removable water regulator for Christmas. I spent two weeks in hotels and my home shower feels terrible in comparison to that water pressure. Why do the hotels get to have objectively better showers than I do?

My favorite is the line “there is not enough grazing land in the world for people to eat as much meat as Americans and Europeans do”

Well, there does seem to be enough land for the American and European cows. Other places will eat other things. Like they always have.

There aren't enough people in Australia for us all to eat the meat we produce.

In 2019, Australia exported 76% of its total beef and veal production

https://www.mla.com.au/about-mla/the-red-meat-industry/

> No thanks. Hard pass. This is all terrible.

Of course it sounds terrible, but is it more or less terrible than the collapse of civilization, which is what seems likely to happen as a result of climate instability and radical ecological changes, should we continue on our present course?

"Hard pass" is a choice for the latter.

To me, no meat and cold showers is the collapse of civilization. Or at the very least, the start of it.