What if Everyone Did Something to Slow Climate Change? Researchers are looking at the impact that individuals’ actions can have on reducing carbon emissions — and the best ways to get people to adopt - eviltoast
  • Gloomy@mander.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    So what’s a realistic approach to the problem:

    Getting billions of individuals to change across the planet? Which requires most of them and their families to die?

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    Changing a few dozen companies.

    Changes like this don’t happen in an empty space. If you have an Eco aware consumer base it help a lot.

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      3 hours ago

      Your plan is to require every individual on the planet to make sacrifices that could kill them and their loved ones? You think that’s actually achievable?

      Did you forget we couldn’t even get everyone to wear masks during the pandemic?

      Of course that plan would never work. We can prove it by showing that greenhouse gas emissions have still been increasing after the fossil fuel industry started this carbon footprint marketing campaign.

      Changes like this don’t happen in an empty space. If you have an Eco aware consumer base it help a lot.

      No one is saying we don’t want eco aware consumers and the top polluting companies on the planet are not “an empty space”.

      This is a systemic problem that requires political and legal action to fix.

      Paper straws don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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        3 hours ago

        Your plan is to require every individual on the planet to make sacrifices that could kill them and their loved ones? You think that’s actually achievable?

        No. I complete not registered the second half of your sentence while quoting it. No fucking idea how that happend. Complete brain fart on my end.