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Yes, I'm one of those people and I'm not sorry. I think big corporations are evil, but I also think they exist because ordinary people buy their products, usual
by bambax 4y ago
Yes, I'm one of those people and I'm not sorry. I think big corporations are evil, but I also think they exist because ordinary people buy their products, usually out of convenience.
There would be not much use for so much fossil burning if we didn't use huge cars to transport us for half a mile instead of walking, or building houses in the freakind desert, or watching TV, or illumiating whole towns and changing night time into daylight, or constantly buying new clothes when we could still wear the old ones, or stuffing ourselves with food until we explode, etc.
So yes, no one personal choice will "materially affect" the situation. But the effort has to start somewhere. Blaming others, "oligarchs" or Chinese leaders doesn't help. It's just a cheap excuse.
- TheRealDunkirk 4y ago> It's just a cheap excuse. Suggesting that I give up -- admit it -- a LOT of personal freedom and convenience, when Chinese companies spew emissions equal to HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE -- and have no real incentive to change -- is like trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper, while someone else is emptying buckets into it. Your "cheap excuse" is precisely the kind of "bad person" inference that I was alluding to. People like you seem to value altruism at MANY orders of magnitude than the people you are disparaging. And, hey, that's great, and all, but we just think you're bad at math.