It really gets me that life was plenty nice and convenient in the 70's when I was young with there being very little plastic. I really wish we could go back to that.
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Like it or not, lifestyle choices are an extremely efficient political pressure.
It also has the advantage to exist, unlike the revolution we all dream of. Sorry, I meant "bold collective action".
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I do my part for the environment. Separating my garbage into trash, recyclable, or composting. Try to keep the speed down to conserve fuel, etc. I even returned some cans to today to get the deposit back ($38!).
It is always in the back of my mind that billionaires take private jets everywhere. Nothing I can do will overcome that.
Yet I still persist knowing I don't have to be perfect to still help the environment.
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Yes. We need a moratorium on all animal agriculture
political pressure and bold collective action
as that doesn't really exist, it has to start. To start it, it requires individual action, including individual sacrifices. There is no secret vanguard lurking, waiting, to "do actions" while everyone else acts the same as before.
It is also essential to understand what changes look like down to the individual, to you, otherwise there's a risk that the needed systemic changes will be rejected by collectives. We already can see widely popular science denying populism.
So the only way to change things is by forcing other people to change their ways? Except for the leftist movie/pop stars, I'm sure they'll get waivers to fly their private jets all over the world so that they're left as fans could enjoy the concerts. This is what the whole of the United States thinks of this, it's a trojan horse for control of the out group and exemptions for the in group
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