CCFL-lit LCDs are so inefficient compared to modern LED-lit LCDs that you’ve probably spent enough more on electricity by now to have bought a more efficient monitor.

I can’t speak to the environmental impact, though. Producing the new monitor emitted some amount of CO2, and powering each monitor takes some amount of CO2 per unit time. At some amount of use, the newer monitor will have lower lifetime CO2 generation than your old monitor.

The only option is to continue to vote for the least-bad candidates, and work to change the voting system such that a two party system is no longer inevitable.

Now if only we could figure out a way to actually do that without burning a bunch of fuel for the purpose of lifting fuel! Something something tyranny of rockets.