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> I also really dislike the "corporations are trying to avoid responsibility by passing it on to the people!" Oh come on... People like Leo Dicaprio and Taylor
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
> I also really dislike the "corporations are trying to avoid responsibility by passing it on to the people!"
Oh come on... People like Leo Dicaprio and Taylor Swift fly on their private jets to tell Johnny Average here, that he should bike for 15 miles to his workplace. Organizations are the same... look at coca cola for example, some water, sugar and aromas, in a plastic bottle, plastic cap, plastic sticker, packed in a sixpack wrapped in plastic, on a pallet, wrapped in more plastic. Reusable glass bottles? Nope (atleast not in my country). Just look at packaging of most items.. clamshell packaging, toothpaste double or tripple wrapped, shrinkflation (less product, same amount of packaging, more packages bought), single peppers wrapped in plastic, bananas wrapped in plastic, electronics literally designed to be unrepairable, tractors going that way too, cars following, user replacable batteries are usually too expensive to replace on 2 year old devices, sotware updates slow down devices, big corps requiring computer-bound workers to come to office, instead of working from home, clothes companies replacing cotton clothes with synthetics, leaking microplastics everywhere, companies catchign fish in US seas, or even meat, shipping them to china to be cleaned, cut and packaged, and then shipped back to US, zero regulation on 3rd world, where corpos either mine raw materials or "recycle" stuff (and recycling copper means burning the insulation off first... literally burning heaps of plastic),... and lets not forget the "accidents" when companies like BP ignore safety and cause fucking huge oil spills and destroy huge areas with their carelessness, and they don't even get properly punished for that.
But no... let's pass the blame on people, who have no alternative on the market, and let's ban straws, because "that'll surely help the environment".
- Jiro 4y agoClamshell packaging is used to prevent theft.
- salawat 4y agoHeaven forbid. We can't have a nice planet to live on because somebody's metrics aren't what they want.
- tunesmith 4y agoLike I said, I don't understand the logic. Rich corporations/people aren't doing everything I think they should do, so therefore I shouldn't track my carbon footprint? People like Leo/Taylor fly on their private jets, therefore Johnny shouldn't bike to work? Banning straws is useless (?) so therefore, companies aren't doing anything worthwhile at all in cutting emissions? Man... if we wait for everything else to be perfect before we put in any effort, that's a pretty great recipe for failure. All those clauses you listed, the proper therefore is "therefore they should not do that". That's it. And if they stop doing it, or do it less, the per-person carbon footprint goes down. It doesn't have anything to do with shifting blame.
- rdm_blackhole 4y agoThe concept of carbon footprint for the average person is in itself a scam to let corporations off the hook by blaming the average person and focusing the conversation on what Johnny average does or eats in a day while forgetting that Big Oil has done everything in its power within the last 50 years to avoid responsibility regarding the fact that they knew and lied about the potential effects of climate change.
- tunesmith 4y agoThat just strikes me as a reiteration of what I'm already talking about.