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> Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now What more power beyond, say, recycling and using public transportation can
by illiarian 3y ago
> Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now
What more power beyond, say, recycling and using public transportation can an individual person have? Note how this narrative is literally shifting the blame from corporations, industries, and governments to individual people. "It's your fault you're not doing enough".
Meanwhile, Germany alone, thanks to the actions of its government, is responsible for more carbon emissions on a single night than I can even theoretically reduce over a milion lifetimes.
They shut down their nuclear reactors, and right now even on a windy night they burn coal and gas to make up for the difference: https://imgur.com/a/3bYudyd https://imgur.com/a/3bYudyd
- asah 3y agostop flying. https://www.google.com/search?q=airplane+emissions+calculator https://www.google.com/search?q=airplane+emissions+calculato...
- illiarian 3y agoAt all? Often? If I fly once a year over a distance of over a thousand kilometers, is it fine or not? What can I, and individual, do to fix the issue that it takes three trains with a high chance of failures and delays, to get to a destination within my country on what is a direct route from city to city? etc. Stop shifting blame to individuals
- moffkalast 3y agoOr ban fossil fuel powered private jets, so the elite is incentivized to invest into development of hydrogen airplanes to the grand benefit of everyone. If they want something done it happens. It's up to the rest of us to force them to want it.
- altec3 3y agoOr the issue with the ozone hole in the 1980s... that was not solved by people stopping personal use of CFCs, or boycotting products that used CFCs. A multinational agreement known as the Montreal Protocol is what stopped the use and production of CFCs.