I only wish I’d disconnected sooner.

Not needing something means more freedom, especially not needing something that hurts people.

People often ask if everyone could live like me. If every American lived like me, we could reduce our electric grid to a tiny fraction of its present incarnation. Our national security would increase, as would our health, community, and safety. Wealth disparities would decrease among many other friendly social outcomes.

We could run mainly on solar and wind but wouldn’t need much storage. When everyone around me lived that way, I could probably use even less battery storage and could share my solar panels with others.

Polluting and depleting hurt innocent people and wildlife. I don’t want to hurt innocent people and wildlife.

I don’t want to end up like Thomas Jefferson, talking about freedom but practicing the opposite.

I didn’t think I could do it. I didn’t know how I’d make it past a few days. If you don’t think you can, you only lack hands-on practical experience, which disconnecting gives.

You can do it too. Stop talking about values and act on them. You’ll wish you had earlier too.

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I think this image is from my last electric bill. It took me a while to cancel my account even after disconnecting. I had heard that some law required being connected, but apparently not.

• ← It’s not your job to end pollution and depletion. It was nobody’s job to end slavery or fight the Nazis either until it was too late. (Or maybe it’s everyone’s job)
• A quarter million burpees →