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When couples disagree about upgrading devices for environmental reasons

We keep buying the latest devices thinking they'll make our lives better but our carbon footprint keeps growing and we can't agree on what 'enough' looks like when the new phone actually would help with work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The tension between individual utility and collective responsibility reveals the difficulty of shared values becoming shared actions.

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