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The truth is that whatever you or I do personally has no effect at all globally on this. That's also true of hundreds of global and international problems. Th
by BurningFrog 4y ago
The truth is that whatever you or I do personally has no effect at all globally on this.
That's also true of hundreds of global and international problems.
The best approach is to accept that which you cannot change.
- dleslie 4y agoThat's really not true, and we have the largest experiment on collective behaviour in history to show this. COVID lockdowns had an _enormous_ impact on carbon emissions. Everyone should fight to WFH, even if you hate it, because the benefit to reducing carbon emissions is known and significant.
- reportgunner 4y agoHow do you suggest that we collectively reproduce the situation from COVID lockdown times ?
- jjbickerstaffe 4y agoIIRC Covid reduced emissions by about 7%. Then they went back up. That's big... but not as big as the 10% reductions we actually need every year
- BurningFrog 4y agoBut COVID lockdowns were not created by me or OP.
- epolanski 4y agoI really dislike those arguments. It's like why bother voting, one vote does not change much. You can be conscious about your consumption and set great examples. Or you can decide you don't care and keep ordering stuff on amazon every day, shove meat and fish everyday in your mouth, change car every few years while flying regularly and pretend is somebody's else problem.
- BurningFrog 4y agoIt's a fact, not an argument. Dislike it if you want, it's still true. And yes, your or my individual vote will never determine an election. I know this and still vote.
- MichaelNolan 4y agoElections that are decided by a single vote are fairly common. If we looked at local elections, we could probably find more than every year. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_results https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_resul...