I kinda agree re: the pyjamas although I’d say the socks they provide are a bigger waste of space, especially if they are supposed to be “compression socks”, they certainly don’t provide that.

Unrelated, but I wonder how long (if at all) it will take for hotels to do away with their 4-5 throw away mini plastic bottles per room? That seems a lot more wasteful than pyjamas.

Doesn’t your post above say you are ENTITLED to act in the way you espouse because you consider yourself better and more privileged than others who don’t have the resources allowing them to act or who don’t choose to act in the way you say you do - arrogant much? When did you last plant a tree? When did you last organise a Skype/Zoom videoconference to meet rather than fly? etc etc etc
While you use the word ‘painful’ I could say your post and your ‘PC-I know best’ attitude makes me feel nauseous. Surely the easiest thing for you to do would be to decline an amenity kit and give it back to the crew rather than dictate that no one should have one because YOU know best in your opinion.
Air NZ charges a premium price for Business/PE in most cases and if you are paying a premium price there is nothing wrong with expecting value - the hard product is not comparatively premium and if one is given a set of PJs or a toothbrush surely it is only environmentally unfriendly if one just discards them and doesn’t reuse them until they are worn out.
If you follow your ‘environmentally friendly’ thinking you should personally never fly in Business or PE again since you should be campaigning for NZ to do away with all premium seating and convert the whole plane into 10 wide economy to minimise space each passenger takes and fly as many passengers as possible per litre of yet fuel used. You would also advocate getting rid of all excess weight including IFE screens, have the lightest nonreclining seats, etc etc

In my opinion the real measure of wealth is not just money it is the ability to have self-determination to be able to make one’s own choices without undue external constraints - the key to this is ‘self’ - the true wealthy don’t dictate a lifestyle to others.

You’ve missed a number of points in your summary but the most important was the concept of SELF-determination - my major issue with your initial post was that you suggest that you should impose your choice of views on others and that they should not be able to have something which they may want and effectively use, and which would be included elsewhere by a competitor frequently for a lower price.

I believe that if a person is so passionate about an issue that they want to dictate something which may affect others they should not have double standards hence the references to not flying business or PE and consciously choosing to support higher density flying or avoiding flying altogether in the name of the environment.

As I said you can easily decline any amenity kit which is provided to you - that may be a great choice for you and if you don’t think the items are useful to you or up to your standards then I’d agree this would be perfectly sensible choice but none of my business.

In fact I am quite environmentally friendly in a number of ways and HATE and USUALLY avoid waste but I would rather make decisions about such issues for myself and not try to impose these views on others (I) because I do not feel that I am ENTITLED to do so and (ii) because I have insight that I do not always act consistently in this way and like to avoid being a hypocrit.

Your first point in the above post was completely incorrect - I was not making a ‘strawman’ argument as I never said you couldn’t make a choice for yourself - if you reread you will see I advocated you making your own choice in declining PJs - what I said makes me nauseous is entitled people believing they should make or advocate such choices for others.

I nearly didn’t post again on this thread as we are starting to get off topic but I do believe there is an important point that just because one believes one is privileged does not give one the right to impose one’s views on others especially when one doesn’t always act consistently. Don’t we all love it when we see politicians do this? Finally as I said ‘wealth’ is different things to different people. There is nothing that stops a person who is poor financially feeling incredibly wealthy because they have many around them who provide unconditional love and just enough resource to get by. In my view wealth includes self-determination but most of the time I don’t try to impose my will on others to unduly limit their ability to live their life as they see fit (as long as they obey the law etc).

Rather a long bow to draw to claim that your bringing your own pyjamas is better for the environment. Can’t wait to hear your logic.