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Just to clarify - it seems that your first comment says that "it's crazy to call excess consumption green, even if your excess consumption uses clean energy", a
by spillguard 6y ago
Just to clarify - it seems that your first comment says that "it's crazy to call excess consumption green, even if your excess consumption uses clean energy", and your second comment says that "it's crazy that we allow excess consumption in the first place"?
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoIt's a well documented deflection strategy: Instead of decreasing unnecessary consumption, whole industries have been steering the popular opinion into thinking that recycling and lowering emissions is good enough. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
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- almost_usual 6y agoImagine if everyone on Earth could consume as much as they wanted, how could this be green? It doesn’t make sense. It’s really not up to humans though, how our planet reacts will eventually be the forcing function.