It is a hugely subjective matter, for instance, at which point the lines representing “not wasting the Earth’s resources” and “not wasting everyone else’s time” finally intersect.
Around the time that recycling wsa based on the near religious idea that all resources are worth saving except your time.
Possibly.
But there is much less subjective measure which is the point at which *resources* used to conserve or recycle other resources exceeds the resources you have conserved or recycled.
And it’s not at all certain that we are on the right side of that line.