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> There is no plausible mechanism for individuals to steer this based on their own consumption. Wrong. This is what we NEED to do. People need to change their
by megablast 3y ago
> There is no plausible mechanism for individuals to steer this based on their own consumption.
Wrong. This is what we NEED to do. People need to change their actions. Young people are doing this already.
We can't just have people driving everywhere.
- temporarara 3y agoIt would be great. But last I checked the youngsters are just about the biggest consumers I've ever seen. Anecdotal, sure, but nevertheless buying Tesla and things like that still doesn't make anyone an environmentalist. But doing real changes like buying mostly used goods (and trying to avoid buying things in the first place) makes you social outcast so I try not to be too hard on people, especially youngsters. Going with the masses is the easiest way to handle life. Thus, the changes really must be forced upon us by regulation, so that there is no shame choosing the "poor people thing". It is of utmost importance that whatever those regulations would be, you shouldn't be able to buy your way out of them. Things like a personal consuming limit for "bad thing" X that is absolute and there is no way around to buy yourself more. Dystopian, sure, and in general I'm not even a fan of big government.
- qgin 3y agoIt would be amazing if everyone decided they would make their lives intentionally harder by biking and walking and using buses in places that have been designed to be completely antagonistic to all of those activities. I've never seen that happen anywhere though. People almost always follow the default. What could happen is governments could invest in making cities walkable, bikable, transit-able by default and people would naturally follow. Even that is a big ask at this point due to extreme sprawl, but it's the only way it's going to happen.