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Proportional to other possible personal actions you can take, I mean. It's easy & fairly affordable for example to offset 10x your own personal emissions. For
by pimterry 7y ago
Proportional to other possible personal actions you can take, I mean.
It's easy & fairly affordable for example to offset 10x your own personal emissions. For an average person in the US that would cost about $70 a month (about 20 tonnes/year * $4/tonne * 10 = $800/year). Meanwhile it's clearly impossible to 1000% reduce your personal emissions, no matter the sacrifices.
Completely agree we need large-scale action from nations & corporations too, but if you're looking for a way you can make a difference right now then offsetting is one of your most direct & effective options.
- 0xffff2 7y agoA large part of the reason we're talking about this is that "possible personal actions you can take" are utterly and completely irrelevant to a problem of this scale. It's actively harmful to talk about personal action in a way that implies it makes a meaningful difference.
- pimterry 7y agoThis argument also applies to protesting or voting - one protestor/voter alone makes no difference - or almost any possible attempt at a solution. What's the alternative? One person voting or acting makes only a small difference, but doing so as one of many eventually has an effect. Corporations and governments will move only because of the cumulative economic and democratic incentives from many many personal actions.