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Why is that ridiculous? If you set up a farm that releases GHG surely you are the producer of it. Oil industry spinned us to calculate personal carbon foot pr
by ollifi 5y ago
Why is that ridiculous? If you set up a farm that releases GHG surely you are the producer of it.
Oil industry spinned us to calculate personal carbon foot prints [1]. That’s a good tool, but at the same time it dissolves the responsibility. In one hand the people actually producing the harm get to blame consumer demand and consumer can aknowledge that what ever they do makes no difference in the big picture.
If you go to work somewhere and release lots of gasses heating the planet you should probably think long and hard why you are doing that.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oi...
- gruez 5y ago> Why is that ridiculous? If you set up a farm that releases GHG surely you are the producer of it. Are you saying this is actually how GHG calculations are done with respect to rural/urban, or that's how it should be counted? >consumer can aknowledge that what ever they do makes no difference in the big picture. a single consumer can't make a difference because they're one person out of 7 billion. consumers in aggregate can make a difference.
- ollifi 5y agoI think trying to get average urban/rural numbers is interesting but also misleading. What matters is what is actually happening and where the harm is produced. My city is heated with district heating, which comes from coal. Thats big chunk of my personal carbon footprint and makes living in a city look bad vs rural life. I think focusing on consumers and making this about urban/rural lifestyle choices is only half the equation and to change things you need to go in and swap the power plants, farms etc.