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What simple changes should people do in their lives to make a positive impact on climate change? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I do believe the biggest impact would come from regulating large companies and billionaires, but it’s not one or the other.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it's fair to put the blame on individuals not reducing their carbon footprints. It's big industries that are fucking the climate. (Oil being likely the biggest one.) And the solution isn't to incentivise individuals to bicycle more. It's to regulate industry to stop taking oil out of the ground.

The idea that the individual citizen is the problem and and the solution to climate change and other environmental issues is propaganda invented by industry to get the focus off of them. "We oil companies aren't the problem. You need to drive less." "We plastic manufacturers didn't put tons of plastic in the oceans. You need to recycle more."

"Voting with your dollars" is similarly a con.

The reason you vote (with your... you know... votes) is so that the administration that isn't going to gut the EPA gets the next term. And maybe they'll enforce regulations on special interests that actually make a positive difference in emissions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but don't forget industry exists to sell things to consumers. I wouldn't put the onus on an individual person, that is a scam, but everybody collectively I sure would.

The way to make everyone collectively do something is through legislation.

The reason you vote (with your… you know… votes) is so that the administration that isn’t going to gut the EPA gets the next term. And maybe they’ll enforce regulations on special interests that actually make a positive difference in emissions.

Friendly reminder that we're not all Americans here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Friendly reminder that we’re not all Americans here.

Ah! Sorry about that. I'm trying to be better about that.