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The companies are producing climate emissions on your behalf. Oil companies are making gasoline for you to burn, natural gas companies are pumping it to you to

The companies are producing climate emissions on your behalf. Oil companies are making gasoline for you to burn, natural gas companies are pumping it to you to burn, and electric companies are burning coal to make electricity for you. On the other side, changing your behavior is a drop in the ocean. Everybody needs to change their behavior. But your behavior will need to change at some point so helps to do it now, and model it to your neighbors. The companies are a target for regulation, or opponents. But the behavior of consumers will have to be regulated. They definitely have distracted people by talking about stuff like plastics and recycling. When it is energy and how it is produced that matters. A lot of stuff will become green when energy and transport is green.

mptest 3y ago
>The companies are producing climate emissions on your behalf Let's not be naive, most if not all things they produce on my behalf could easily be produced with a more ecological process, it would simply require reduction of profit to retool/rebuild infrastructure. Which we all know is only going to happen by enforcement/regulation. If all of that's true, political action is the answer for "most effective individual action you can take to impact climate change", not "abstaining from vacation and plastic straws". >A lot of stuff will become green when energy and transport is green. Exactly, which is why we should utilize regulation to tip the economic scales of profitability in different methods of energy production... And other such legislative tools we can use to incentivize such transitions... All of which relies not on "paper straws" but on concerted political action.