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What is the value of projecting our collective oil dependence onto the companies that provide it? Pretending it's somehow oil companies fault while not making a
by version_five 4y ago
What is the value of projecting our collective oil dependence onto the companies that provide it? Pretending it's somehow oil companies fault while not making any personal changes is delusional.
I think focusing on straws is stupid, but so is pretending that but for oil companies we'd have no problems
- ceejayoz 4y agoSub out “oil” for “tobacco” in your comment for a moment.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoOur personal choice is to use fuel, because we need energy, BPs personal (well, corporate) incompetence was at fault for the totally useless (nothing good, no heat, no transport, no plastics, just damage to our environment) oil spill in 2010. So, we, a collective of millions and billions of people are being put on pedestal for using straws (if we do, many of us don't), while one incompetent company (people there) offsets the efforts of literally millions of people.
- version_five 4y agoI'm not trying to excuse oil spills, but I think it's dodging responsibility to base our whole lives around drilling a dirty fuel out of the ground and then blame only the company when these happen. Using oil entails some risk that it's going to contaminate the environment, and we are collectively responsible.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoResponsibly isn't equally weighted. Regulatory capture and decades of insidious 'education' and advertising also tip the scales. The solution is collective though. Externalities cannot be ignored forever, even if the short sighted grifters die before the world is an uninhabitable waste.