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So... corporate action is meaningless because other companies will continue to pollute. Technological advancements are meaningless because other countries will

• noahtallen 7y ago
  Exactly the thought I had. I do generally agree with the feeling that consumerism fuels waste and therefore unneeded emissions, but to suggest that radical change happens at the personal level and not at the corporate level seems off. To the point: > Developing software or a widget to optimize one's impact is just selling people hopium. Wouldn’t shaving 1% of emissions for a manufacturing company reduce emissions far more than me reducing my emissions by cutting out meat for a week? Intuitively, small cuts at a large scale across many companies would save us much more than small cuts at a small scale across many people. Anyways, I think it must be attacked from all these angles. But in my view, corporate emissions should be the bigger target. Sure, we could all be blamed for the problem. But individuals make choices based on what is available to them at the time with the resources they have. Most people never take an international fight and many never set foot on an airplane at all. Most people in the world are poor.