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The hardest truth for many people interested in environmental sustainability or morality as a whole is the fact that true perfection is through poverty. Every product meant to help the world only hurts the world less than not purchasing any at all. The only way forward is to give up your possessions and live a basic life.
We live in a finite world; resources not consumed by you will be consumed by others. Truly the rich man can not surpass the poor man in moral character through good works unless he gives enough away to become the poorer man.
Although many push the idea that political action is the most important cause for moral and environmental justice, these actions are meaningless without the equivalent pursuit of an ascetic life.
St Anthony the Great was truly a forefather of the modern cause. Though driven by faith many came to the same conclusions as those driven by the material world.