To think my friend should not use her tumble dryer on lovely warm dry days.

[josta]

My friend is lovely, she's supportive, considerate and fun to be around, but one thing that I cannot agree with is the fact that she uses her tumble dryer 365 days a year.

It's on most of the day. She says she uses it to cut down on ironing. I have tried to pursuade her to hang it outside on many occasions but she just laughs it off. I think the more I mention it the more she digs her heels in.

I know it's none of my business but it bugs me, that she can be so ignorant about it.

Would it annoy anyone else, or is the problem mine?

Agree with whoever suggested watching An Inconvenient Truth. I dont have a dryer and it aint that hard. I fret all the time about what kind of world my sons are going to be stuck with after the planet has dried up. And what they are going to have to endure through is far more devastating than how tired I am about hanging clothes to dry

I must admit I fell asleep watching An Inconvenient Truth as it seemed to be much more about Al Gore than anything else. I do have a problem with the whole climate change lobby, and find it strange that if this argument is so compelling that we haven't all been ordered to stop driving and using electricity etc, and that all the countries with huge emissions like China keep on emitting.

When I first read the OP, I thought YABU, it's nothing to do with you, but now I've had a little more of think, I actually sort of agree.

Since we got a tumble drier, I've been feeling guilty about how much I use it, because it's just so convenient, and I do find that anything line-dried (inside or out) does end up really stiff and uncomfortable to wear.

But I am going to make more of an effort now, because what's the point in being enviromentally friendly in lots of other ways if as soon as it's a bit inconvenient for me I slip back to a what-the-hell attitude?

Right, so that's my Spring Resolution: use the tumble drier less!

I never understand why people who are so pessimistic about the future of the world have children - surely it contributes to global warning and to your stress levels re worrying what they will have to deal with. Wouldn;t it be greener to either not have children at all or adopt.

Or maybe it is possible to have a completely carbon neutral life?

My Nanna says she used to fret about the future of her '6 children. There had just been WW1 and WW2 was beginning and the world was in chaos. Well the baby boomers have done well...My mum says she worried about nuclear bombs and the vietnam war and what sort of world it would be with so many weapons... but we have done ok! I think we all worry about the world in the future for our children - it is natural and climate change and global warming seems to be this generations issue.
I think it is important to be happy and enjoy each day.
Personally consumerism, gluttony and greed and people's growing lack of respect for éach other worries me so much more!