>Does it include paper and cardboard? You just voted for deforestation.

This is pretty much false because trees for paper production are actually farmed in the developed world, and much of the deforestation is actually driven by land use conversion (eg. burning down the amazon rainforest for cattle grazing, or burning down the jungles of south east asia for palm plantations).

Yep, those hidden costs are a PITA, like...

Are you buying organic vegetables? You just voted for 80% more land use, 50% more emissions, more water, labour etc. And endogenous pesticides in your food which can't be washed off.

Regarding the organic food, I wish it were that simple, but organic isn't better than conventional. It can still use pesticides, if they have a biological origin, and these are more aggressive than the synthetic ones. To feed the same population, more land use is required, thereby increasing deforestation and more carbon emissions to bring food along greater distances.

Organic producers are not pesticide free, and some of the pesticides they apply are more harmful than modern pesticides used by non organic producers.

Most paper and cardboard is produced from managed forests, where the harvested trees make room for more trees, the forest isn't destroyed.

> Everything you buy comes with a hidden cost which outweighs the monetary cost by several orders of magnitude.

Unless you buy your stuff in a specialized store e.g. a zero packaging store. Even when you buy stuff in a normal store, if it says 100% recycling paper and has a high price tag, you can assume it doesn't involve deforestation and probably not everybody in the supply chain has been screwed over.

I won't argue that everyone has to buy all things in specialized organic stores because the effort would be unreasonable. But everyone with a high salary should have a bias towards things with the higher price tags from relatable brands/producers.