Generating power to run labour-saving machines also generates CO2. CO2 traps heat in the atmosphere which warms the planet and destabilises our climate.

If everyone in the UK used an energy-efficient dishwasher and washing machine and did just one load less of tumble drying each month, we’d save over a million tonnes of CO2 a year. That’s as much as the entire CO2 output of a country like Cameroon and nearly enough to fill six million double-decker buses - assuming they all came along at once.

Five people in a car is better than one person in a car. Running a full dishwasher is better than running a half-full dishwasher. Although taking lift to the first floor is actually twice as bad as taking a lift to the second – unspeakably lazy, rather than just lazy.

So if you can do something with your own steam power rather than labour-saving machine power, please do it. And if you have to use a machine, use it as efficiently as possible.

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Why? Tell you why.

Someone might ask why you’re taking the stairs rather than using the lift. Let them. Then strike back like a freakishly witty viper with one of these sharp-tongued Tell You Whys. If you know a wittier or more venomous one please post it on the blog).

1. Because people break wind in lifts.
2. Because there’s only one miniscule chance of surviving a lift fall and that’s to lie flat on top of another person and I just don’t feel comfortable asking.
3. On a scale of one to ten - sod off.
4. Because lifts are for losers.
5. Because I’m a Rocky and you’re a rock ape.

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