"Personal carbon footprint" was an incredibly successful PR campaign by the biggest polluters to shift the responsibility onto individual consumers (who have mu

"Personal carbon footprint" was an incredibly successful PR campaign by the biggest polluters to shift the responsibility onto individual consumers (who have much less ability to actually change anything). I'm glad to see the trend of pushing back this narrative. It's clear that the biggest polluters have profited immensly from pushing their externalities onto the rest of the world. As much as I do like my personal choices and responsibilites, I don't even know why some things are available for me to buy. Isn't it kind of insane to think that I could walk into a supermarket and buy chocolate that was produced with slave labour? Why is that even an option? Similar for any product with an outsized negative environmental impact. I'm not sure that the Democrats' path here is the way forward (I'm not American and don't want to try to understand if something like this is even legally possible), but expecting consumers to educate themselves about climate change in a meaningful way as an approach to preventing disaster is doomed from the start.