As defined in the last posting an Eco-Pooper is a person that brings up the negative environmental ramifications of any product or activity being considered or discussed (like Jason in the ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary). If you are that person, or want to be that person, or you would prefer just being better informed, Tatiana Schlossberg’s Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have merits some of your attention. (An updated paperback version is available in March at the Destination: Books online store via Bookshop.org.)
Schlossberg, the climate beat reporter for The New York Times has compiled a comprehensive list of what we buy, the way we buy it and how we live impacts the environment. She connects the dots from all over -- Mongolia, Columbia, and Iowa to our front porch.
She divides the topic into sections on Technology and the Internet, Food, Fashion, and Fuel and then parses them into shorter chapters. For example, Fashion is divided into “Thirsty for Denim”, “Athleisure Forever!”, “Fast Fashion, but Going Nowhere”, “It’s Not Wood, It’s Rayon" and “The Yarn That Makes the Desert.” In the latter piece Schlossberg shows how the consumer lust for inexpensive cashmere had caused climate chaos in Mongolia that has resulted in the expansion of the Gobi Desert and rising ozone levels in California.
Similarly, in "The Great Big Cargo Route in the Sky" Schlossberg uses roses grown in the South American country of Columbia to illustrate the impact of air freight on the environment. She writes:
"In 2017, 4 billion flowers (roses and others) weighing 200,000 tons total (about one-tenth of pound per flower) were flown from Columbia to the United States… Carrying all of those flowers (and just the flowers, not including their packaging) used 114 million liters of fuel and released 360,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, according to an estimate from the International Council on Clean Transportation."
Two takeaways from this excerpt: 1.) Schlossberg includes her statistics and references throughout the book (mostly in the footnotes) and 2.) If you don’t want to buy your sweetheart roses this Valentine’s Day you have a readymade excuse (even though they have probably have already landed stateside). 
And roses are nothing compared to coal ash, the highly toxic by-product of burning coal in power plants that is primarily stored in water near lakes and streams, until it is not. (The disaster at the Kingston, Tennessee Fossil Plant in 2008).
And then there is most unfavorite revelation in the “The Greediest Crop” piece which is about environmental problems surrounding corn. (I grew up in the town known as the Buckle on the Corn Belt and I love corn-on-the-cob). Too much corn is being grown partially for use as the gasoline supplement ethanol and for the feeding of livestock. Moreover, how the corn is grown exacerbates the problem. Besides the fossil fuel burned to grow the corn/ethanol, corn is being grown as a monoculture crop requiring larger amounts for fertilizer and it is more susceptible to disease and insects (more pesticides needed). She explains how the endless acres of corn creates droughts and floods as well. News reports of violent flooding with thunderstorms that destroy crops and livelihoods in the Midwest are serving as constant reminders.
If there is a bright spot in Schlossberg’s book is that it does not have an overly bitter or condemning tone and she has lighter moments to keep it in perspective. She quips, “My love for disappointing facts as perhaps you have come learn is endless.”
Inconspicuous Consumption is simply a one stop shop, summarizing the role each consumer plays in harming and perhaps changing some habits to save the planet.