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When environmental choices create social pressure

My friends all have the newest iPhones and AirPods and I am still using my phone from three years ago and sometimes I feel proud and sometimes I just feel left out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sustainable behavior can become a source of social alienation rather than moral satisfaction.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Environmental cost of technology?”

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