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Most people don't have a choice about how much they pollute. Can't get anywhere without burning gas, can't buy anything that doesn't come wrapped in plastic. Th
by inamberclad 6y ago
Most people don't have a choice about how much they pollute. Can't get anywhere without burning gas, can't buy anything that doesn't come wrapped in plastic. The choices were made for us.
- rthomas6 6y agoYes you can... You can't go to zero, but it's untrue to say "I can do nothing".
- kbos87 6y agoI agree that some choices were made for us, but abdicating any personal responsibility In favor of anger at someone else strikes me as lazy and defeatist thinking. Many people in industrialized nations make choices every day and have full control over their own behavior - how they get around, what they eat, how and how often they travel, the brands they engage with... sitting and waiting for the problem to be solved for us is what’s gotten us nowhere.
- istorical 6y agoYou can cut down a ton of your carbon emissions by not supporting the fashion industry, only buying used clothing or making your own, or at the least buying only a very small number of pieces of clothing that have extremely long lifespan. You can modify your diet to avoid the incredible carbon production created by meat (even if just reducing number of times a week you eat red meat). You can buy less useless shit on Amazon that you don't really _need_ just vaguely want. There's a lot you _can_ do. But you're right that it's not enough to solve the problem alone.