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Asking people not to buy is a huge cop out, and does the usual maneuver of painting companies as victims of consumers. Companies are externalizing their packing
by DoingIsLearning 4y ago
Asking people not to buy is a huge cop out, and does the usual maneuver of painting companies as victims of consumers. Companies are externalizing their packing and shipping costs at the expense of huge environmental loses for everyone and at huge profits for them.
Governments and regulators should regulate this out of existence. Unfortuntely they are for the moment spinelessly lobbyable.
Asking consumers to curb comsumption is a fool's errand, ask consumers to demand their representatives defend the environmental interests of everything on this planet.
- robertlagrant 4y ago> does the usual maneuver of painting companies as victims of consumers No. You're overlaying a victim mentality onto the situation, where there was none. I don't know why you believe that us trying to get "spinelessly lobbyable" governments and regulators to fix this is a good idea, but that it's a "fool's errand" for us to drink less Coke until they fix it. Our spending is much more directly effective (and cost-effective) vote for companies to change than voting for professional representatives to make speeches at them.