I'll never understand why articles discussing environmentalism are always met with a certain amount of comments where people seem to be angry, offended, or otherwise upset as if they're being personally attacked. The police aren't going to come around forcing you to give up your current shower. Spreading awareness of ways to live one's life in a less wasteful well is a good thing, and the emotionally charged negative comments are a step in the wrong direction
> The police aren't going to come around forcing you to give up your current shower.
I mean, they did do that? Federal law from 1992 mandates the gpm flow of shower heads. The law says:
> "all faucet fixtures manufactured in the United States restrict maximum water flow at or below 2.5 gallons per minute (gpm) at 80 pounds per square inch (psi) of water pressure or 2.2 gpm at 60 psi."
Literally the police aren't going to come around forcing you to give up your current shower, they're just forcing all companies to produce and sell only certain kinds of showers.
Why wouldn't a reasonable person who cares about something like this feel personally attacked? They already were attacked! There seems to be no reason to assume that federal law that already exists around this issue won't tighten more. In their eyes you're basically saying: "Why are people worried the government will interfere with [things they've been interfering with for decades]?"
(note I personally don't care about this issue, but it seems like there's already a history of forcing XYZ on people here, so it seems natural that people would resist further intrusion or whatever. "What if that's good" is a separate argument.)
Those manufacturers also write into their instructions "DO NOT REMOVE this easily-removed flow-restricting plastic washer, or drill its hole out to a larger size, or your shower head will no longer conform to maximum flow rate regulations (nudge nudge wink wink)."
I wonder how much of it is based in fear of losing their creature comforts. Anger can definitely stem from perceiving a threat subconsciously and not realizing the cause and effect happening very quickly within your own amygdala/brain.
