MSE Poll: Would you pay more to go green?

MSE_Chris_O

Poll started 2 November 2021

Going green is top of the news agenda this week, with world leaders meeting at COP26. Yet it's not always easy – or cheap – to make environmentally-friendly choices in what we buy or use. This week we want to know whether you'd be prepared to pay more to go green with these common products or services?

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turbopete

voted in the poll but it wont show any results so far. Is there a problem with it or is it a browser issue (using firefox currently and it can be a bit picky recently)

ginger_chocolate

There should probably be an option for "I don't use this item/service" - many people choose not to eat meat or use a vehicle for example - either for environmental reasons or for other reasons. You can skip those questions, but it's not made very clear, so the poll results are likely to be distorted.

 Also what does "pay slightly more" even mean? For me, spending a quid more on shower gel is "slightly more" - but for some people that might seem like a lot more, others might already be spending more than me on shower gel, so switching to a greener one might cost them less.

So what is this poll meant to tell us?

SpanishBlue

turbopete said:

voted in the poll but it wont show any results so far. Is there a problem with it or is it a browser issue (using firefox currently and it can be a bit picky recently)

There has been a problem for some Firefox users for months now with MSE polls.

I use another browser to see the result of the polls.

Angelfeathers

Okay, I know this is a forum for money savers so presumably (hopefully) unrepresentative of the general population, but wow, it's scary how many people who voted aren't willing to pay even a little bit more to help save the Earth! :-(

[Deleted User]

I want to do this but I have a finite amount of loot. That is the bottom line for me. I already try to avoid various things where possible, refuse to buy bottled water for example (I have a tap), try to avoid single use plastics. I buy coffee that this ethical (shade grown, funds go to growers and it costs more) , try to avoid anything with palm oil in and so on. But back to the non bottomless pit of loot, that is my limitation.

edit. would love to get on the leccy car band wagon but comes back to the loot issue.

Cannot see the results either.

Alantheaged

Alas, the do as I say, not as I do from the COP26 attendees - How many private jets? How many huge cars Mr Biden, and using Deisel generators to charge the conferences "for show" electric cars - the generator/electric car combination is even dirtier than using proper deisel cars! Really, the more I see and hear about the "Go Green" (and give us loads a money for the pleasure especially the super expensive don't work very well heat pumps"), the more I am beginning to see it as a mega scam. Greta has just shown her true foul mouthed colours without of course going to Beijing to demonstrate - wonder why not! - AND it has just been published (in a tiny entry at the bottom of one inner page in my paper) that the global temperature has dropped 0.2C since 2015. As the publshed increase in 2015 was 1.29C since industrialisation commenced, thats a 15% reduction - YES 15% reduction!. Where were the headlines for that??? And do you really want to beggar yourself and your country for a show less than 1% reduction in global contribution because that is the UKs total world contribution. China can (and probably is) already commissioning more than enough coal fired stations to wipe that out. No, Boris and Co., please go back and think very hard again and come up with something sensible, proportionate AND works effectively AND economically.