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The personal carbon footprint is just a dodge for the elite, a way to push the problem off onto us rubes. The reality is that the producers have far more power
by titzer 5y ago
The personal carbon footprint is just a dodge for the elite, a way to push the problem off onto us rubes. The reality is that the producers have far more power over CO2 output than consumers ever will. "Let the market decide" does not work with large, hugely imbalanced indirect externalities.
- thatfrenchguy 5y agoSeems like a good fallacy to keep running a old diesel and est meat at every meal because “the corporations do it” to me
- adamrezich 5y agoit only seems that way because you've been conditioned to feel shamefully personally responsible for things far outside of your control
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- bcrosby95 5y ago"the corporations" have spent hundreds of millions in marketing and advertising pushing the idea of a personal carbon footprint. Just so we can point our fingers at eachother rather than them. Money well spent I guess.
- JacobThreeThree 5y ago>The personal carbon footprint is just a dodge for the elite, a way to push the problem off onto us rubes. Some other questions that come to mind: Who decides what the carbon footprints of everyone's behaviors are? What level of surveillance is needed to enforce everyone's behaviors? To what extent will carbon credits markets be subject to regular market events like boom/bust cycles, speculators and other market manipulators?