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How? Buy less stuff, travel less, eat less meat.
by noja 7y ago
How? Buy less stuff, travel less, eat less meat.
- cableshaft 7y agoBut companies need butts in seats for that water cooler effect, so people might have a good idea once in a blue moon when talking in person! That alone is worth forcing everyone to spend up to three hours a day traveling to and from work!
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThat's profoundly too-little, too-late. Its a false narrative designed to pacify folks into inaction i.e. not taking political action. If we only skip a burger now and again, we don't have to address dependence on fossil fuels! Ridiculous.
- rhacker 7y agoYou're right - there are far more people that don't care at all than the number of those of us that do. Which is why we have to fight.
- mikestew 7y agoYour asking the beginning meditation student to sit in an all-day eight hour session of silence. Let's start them out with a quickie ten-minute guided meditation session with soothing voice in their headphones, eh? Drastically curtailing airline flights and eating less meat is a considerable step for most Americans who aren't already doing so. Let 'em start with that, maybe they'll make the next step to riding the bicycle to work a few times a week, maybe they'll find they can just cut meat altogether. Next thing you know, they're washing their hemp clothes in their water-saving washer less often. Because let me tell you what voting green has gotten me over the last thirty years...
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThat's the point -all dwindles to insignificance next to power generation, transportation, industry.