idk who needs to hear this but climate change isn’t *your* fault. the earth has enough to provide for all of us regular people. should we always be mindful of our consumption? of course. but it’s literally just a handful of rich greedy fucks that are exploiting the earth to death.
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maura quint
Climate change is a huge problem and everyone should do what they can but I strongly believe blaming individuals instead of corporations is a corporate tactic to obscure the key causes, create personal guilt, and discourage people from organizing for real progress.
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The list is endless. YOU and your ways of thinking are a direct problem. 😂👀
all the evils of society are poor people's fault. we use plastic straws and other one-use plastic. we are literally why the atmosphere is fucked up and the climates are changing so rapidly!
imo if a company makes garbage, they should be 100% responsible for the collection, recycling, and disposal of said waste
and like. we've known the environmental disaster that is styrofoam for like 40 years and yet it's still widely used
the govt could legislate it out, like they did to plastic straws
It's also not outside our individual means to profoundly help fix it.
I am not to blame and I refuse to be powerless in the solution too.
(Though now you point it out, personal consumption is the smallest part of how we can affect change - being aware of how much power we actually have beyond that is a good thing too)
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/04/global-large-companies-must-do-far-more-to-cut-carbon-emissions-and-limit-climate-damage/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/just-57-companies-linked-to-80-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-since-2016
Genuinely asking because if you include their products as well I think preferring the leaders that built highways over leaders that suggested trains is on us as a group.
Canada going for PP because he promises low ⛽ prices is on Canadians.
By that method, basically all fossil fuel emissions are definitionally attributable to oil companies—and none to transportation or anything else.
(It’s a bad method.)
The biggest producers are Government owned or controlled
That means that when 100 million US households drive, fly, etc., the Carbon Majors report in effect says “well, that’s all Chevron and ExxonMobil.”
https://carbonmajors.org/briefing/The-Carbon-Majors-Database-26913
As capital conglomerates into a small number of hands it uses it's outsized power to pervert the regulatory environment forcing their products to be the only viable alternatives.
It's their fault.
That said it’s also not really the case e.g. that petroleum lobbying has been suppressing some viable alternative to aviation fuel.
You didnt explain how this is related to all oil companies which produce the majority of co2 emissions, so in lieu of an alternative explanation, it seems like u are defending them.
If you are trying to phrase your statement as a question (“is it on all us as a group?”), i can answer: no, its not.
I'm just not dismissing everyone's responsibility in, when given a choice, choosing policymakers that openly favor these bad boys' interests again and again.
so e.g. emissions from cars are grouped under the company that produced the fuel
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-greenhouse-gas-emissions
I still limit my consumption, but I sure don't beat myself up over it.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-emit-much-planet-heating-pollution-two-thirds-humanity
https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621551/mn-climate-equality-201123-en.pdf
https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-world-s-top-1-of-emitters-produce-over-1000-times-more-co2-than-the-bottom-1
There are lots of good reasons for class war, don't get me wrong.
Project Drawdown has actually studied and mapped out the technological changes that can have the biggest impact.
https://drawdown.org/drawdown-roadmap
But like, there are billions of us, and we do consume a LOT.
At present use levels did you know we only have about 50-70years of iron left? At least the one not very hard to mine...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7W6HFHPYs
The carbon footprint concept predates BP's campaign. That's not to say they haven't abused it.
Why unilaterally surrender our power to boycott?
No-one’s suggesting that we do nothing. I reduce, reuse and recycle etc but beyond a certain point it’s much better to spend my energy to pressure corporate and industrial change where I can.
and how one(1) of those individuals would produce an entire dumpster full of waste
every
single
day
when these folks shape our environment they're more like a cordceps fungus on the insect body politic (studies show the fungus hijacks the muscles while the insect is conscious and unconsenting but helpless)
Yeah. That's nowhere near enough, but it's not nothing.
I knew a lot of it was ending up in landfill anyway but I thought at least some of it was being turned into other stuff! 🥲
like metal is relatively easy and cheap to recycle, and the metal doesn't degrade
paper degrades, but is pretty cheap and the degraded paper makes stuff people buy and use so that happens at all
Plastic degrades a lot, and takes a lot of energy. Costly shit product
plastics industry sold is on the idea so we didn't stop using so much plastic and to dodge responsibility